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How  To 
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How  TO  CONTROL  FATE 

THROUGH  SUGGESTION. 


A  Lesson  in 
SOUL  CULTURE 


—BY- 
HENRY   HARRISON   BROWN, 

Author  of  "How  to  Control  Fate  through  Suggestion,"  "Man's  Greatest 
Discovery,"  etc.,  and  Editor  of  NOW. 


In    the    Will   work  and  thou    shalt    chain    the   wheel  of 
Chance — Emerson. 

Was  somebody  asking  to  see  the  Soul? 
See!  Your  own  shape  and  countenance. 

—  Walt  Whitman. 


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OTUDY  ME!    ASSIMILATE   ME!    MAKE  ME  A 

^    PART  OF  THY  LIFE!     I  WILL  THEN  LEAD 

THEE    TO    HEALTH,    PROSPERITY,    AND 

HAPPINESS         ::::::: 


To  HIM 

WHOSE  LOVE  AND  HELPFULNESS 
MADE  NOW  POSSIBLE. 


COPYRIGHTED,  1901  AND  1906,  BY  HENRY  HARRISON  BROWN 
Kutered  at  stationer's  Hall,  London  Knglaud. 


INTRODUCTION. 


Some  of  the  matter  of  these  Essays  has  appeared  in 
various  journals  and  more  especially  in  the  Suggester 
and  Thinker.  It  is  here  collected,  revised,  extended, 
improved,  and  put  into  a  permanent  shape  for  study. 
In  its  previous  form,  it  attracted  considerable  attention 
and  won  much  appreciation. 

This  volume  contains  the  most  important  knowledge 
man  can  possess,  i.  e.,  knowledge  of  the  Power  to  con- 
trol his  own  Destiny.  In  his  own  life  and  that  of  many 
others,  the  author  has  seen  the  demonstration  of  this 
Power.  The  reader  has  but  to  follow  the  instructions 
herein  laid  down  to  reach  that  condition  of  realization 
which  Jesus  knew  when  he  affirmed :  "I  and  my  Father 
are  ONE." 

The  way  is  easy.  Its  principle  is  Truth.  Its  in- 
centive is  Love.  Its  result  is  Life  "more  abundantly." 
That  there  may  be  understanding,  in  Part  I.  the  phil- 
osophy of  Unity  has  been  elucidated  and  verified  by 
the  Law  of  Vibration. 

That  this  Principle  of  Unity  and  the  Law  of  Vibration 
may  be  applied  to  daily  thinking  and  living,  in  Part 
II  the  Principle  of  Suggestion  is  unfolded.  This  is 
an  ever-present  and  an  ever-active  Principle.  He  who 
accepts,  understands  and  applies  it,  attains  mastery 
over  all  conditions.  This  principle  is  the  basis  of  the 
many  metaphysical  movements  of  the  day  and,  when 
intelligently  obeyed,  gives  one  all  the  power  that  any 
"healer"  possesses. 

That  the  reader  may  attain  this  power,  methods  of 
thinking  and  affirming  are  scattered  through  these 
pages.  At  the  close,  are  affirmations  for  practice  that 
all  may,  through  a  trained  Will,  learn  "The  Art  of 


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6  How  TO  CONTROL  FATE 

Living."  The  end  and  aim  of  the  book  is  to  help  the 
reader  to  Self-Control.  No  perception  of  Truth  ever 
gave  man  such  Power  as  does  this  of  Self-Suggestion, 
or,  as  we  will  term  it,  AFFIRMATION.  It  is  the 
discovery  that  Thought  is  Force  and  that  man  can 
control,  in  its  objective  expression,  this  Infinite  Sub- 
Conscious  Life,  which  is  the  Real  Man — the  Ego — 
and  thus  control  Fate. 

All  the  mystery  of  the  ancient  and  modern  schools  is 
cleared  away  from  the  subject  and  all  the  misconcep- 
tions of  theology  are  avoided.  As  Darwin  investigated, 
and  as  Spencer  reasoned,  upon  objective  phenomena, 
the  effects,  so  have  I  tried  to  investigate  and  reason 
upon  the  Cause,  the  Subjective  man. 
The  Spirit  that  has  inspired  me  is  that  of  the  Affirma- 
tion, ALL  IS  GOOD.  I  have  tried  to  let  it  manifest  in 
me  under  that  New  Commandment,  "That  ye  love  one 
another." 

SAN  FRANCISCO,  CALV  Nov.  1,  1901. 


PARTL 

The  Science  and  Philosphy  of  Life* 


Unity*  Unity  Of  nature  is  now  the  basic  thought 
in  science  and  in  the  new  Philosophy.  The 
ancient  and  child-man  thought  duality.  This  concep- 
tion, which  from  earliest  times  has  dominated  the  con- 
ceptions of  man,  has  passed  from  the  mind  of  the  pres- 
ent thinker.  With  it  must  pass  all  the  old  conceptions 
of  man  and  nature.  With  these  conceptions,  must  also 
ultimately  pass  the  customs,  laws  and  theologies  based 
upon  the  unscientific,  primitive  conception  of  nature 
as  duality. 

This  conception  of  unity,  as  opposed  to  that  of  duality, 
is  destined  by  evolution  to  work  a  revolution  whose  im- 
jport  it  is  now  impossible  to  over-estimate. 

Half  Our  science  has  not  been  half  science,  even 

Science*  since  Darwin  and  Spencer  gave  it  the  key  to 
all  the  knowledge  which  comes  to  the  soul 
from  the  external  consciousness  by  observation  and 
reasoning.  Darwin  gave  man  his  first  true  conception 
of  the  world  without  himself.  The  survival,  in  greater 
or  less  degree,  of  the  idea  of  dualism  in  the  scientific 
mind  and  in  philosophic  speculation,  has  so  colored 
investigation  that  constantly  there  has  arisen  from  it 
the  idea  of  limitation,  division,  antagonism,  contest, 
struggle,  etc.  This  conception  of  duality  has  either 
been  present  or  has  been  introduced  as  explanation 
in  much  scientific  reasoning  and,  in  the  most  inde- 
pendent minds,  it  has  at  least  been  recognized  as  a 
fact  of  nature.  This  conception  is  so  false  that  the 
New  and  Coming  Philosophy  will  bear  the  same  rela- 
tion to  the  old  as  the  child  does  to  the  man. 


8  How  TO  CONTROL  FATE 

Revolution.  It  is  safe  to  say  that  this  conception  of 
an  all-pervading  Unity  is  destined  to 
work  a  change  in  thought  and  life  greater  than  that 
wrought  by  Copernicus  when  he  "changed  the  front  of 
the  universe,"  or  by  Jesus,  when  he  lifted  philosophy 
from  Force  to  Love.  Darwin  and  his  co-workers  not 
only  threw  miracle  and  supernatural  into  law,  but  they 
did  more;  they  destroyed  duality  and,  though  this 
thought  has  been  constantly  permeating  the  common 
mind,  it  has  been  overlooked  by  philosophers.  But 
common  sense  has  joined  unconsciously  with  the  dem- 
onstrations of  science  and  made  mind  and  matter  into 
one  unity.  The  result  of  this  can  be  only  dimly  fore- 
seen. But  this  I  prophesy : — in  future,  man  will  look 
within  himself  and  not  without,  as  now,  for  knowl- 
edge and  direction — will  find  the  universe  in  himself 
and  not,  as  now,  himself  in  the  universe.  This  is  the 
greatest  change  of  front  man  has  ever  made.  It  is 
revolution,  but  until  he  makes  it  he  is  neither  true 
nor  free. 

Tendency  This  tendency  of  thought  is  seen  in 

of  Thought.  every  new  work  in  philosophy  and  in 
every  new  deduction  of  science.  Few 
are  there  who  dare  to  follow  out  to  the  end  logical  con- 
clusions, or  are  free  to  give  to  the  world  the  clearest 
light  of  their  reasoning.  Professor  W.  J.  Powell,  of 
the  government  ethnological  bureau,  has  recently  pub- 
lished a  work  which  is  destined  to  rank  high  in  the 
future  for  its  insight  and  its  reasoning  on  the  Oneness 
of  nature.  Professor  McGee,  in  reviewing  the  book- 
in  The  Forum,  says  of  Prof.  Powell :  "Accepting  the 
observed  unity  of  matter  and  motion,  Powell  is  able  to 
escape  that  besetting  dualism  that  has  clung  to  the  hu- 
man mind  ever  since  the  sylvan  savage  first  noticed 
front  and  rear,  this  side  and  that  side." 
"This  observed  unity"  is  the  basis  of  reasoning  and  of 
life  in  Soul  Culture.  Soul  Culture  is,  therefore,  that 
coming  thing  which  is  neither  religion  nor  science, 


THROUGH  SUGGESTION.  9 

but  is  the  union  of  the  two,  Soul  being  the  religious 
side,  and  Culture  being  the  scientific  side  of  the  thought. 
Its  first  affirmation  is  Unity.  This  affirmation  is  con- 
stantly repeated  until  it  becomes  the  instinctive  thought, 
to  solve  all  problems  of  life. 

One —  All  is  One — Something!     The  name  is 

Something*  of  no  consequence.  I  would  not  quarrel 
with  one  who  would  say  Brahm,  God, 
Force,  or  any  other  term  that  to  him  meant  Unity.  I 
find  it  more  acceptable  to  say, — All  is  Spirit.  What 
Spirit  is,  can  be  answered  only  by  saying :  Spirit  is  All 
and  All  is  to  consciousness  only  differing  manifesta- 
tions of  Spirit. 

Duality*  There  are  not  two  forces,  two  antagonistic 
somethings,  warring  in  nature  for  mastery. 
These  two  things  have  heretofore  been  in  the  mind 
balanced.  Some  of  these  warring  mental  twins  arc 
God  and  Devil,  angels  and  demons,  men  and  women, 
spirit  and  body,  mind  and  matter,  matter  and  motion, 
matter  and  spirit,  good  and  evil,  health  and  disease, 
life  and  death — as  separate  entities.  These  are  two 
only  to  the  child-man,  who  reasons  from  appearances, 
but  to  him  who  looks  at  cause  they  will  ever  be  mani- 
festations of  the  One.  There  are  no  double  standards. 
One  reigns  forever,  and  that  one  is  Mind  or  Spirit — 
omnipotent,  omniscient  and  omnipresent.  Cause  be- 
ing One,  there  can  be  only  harmony.  There  can  be  no 
antagonism ;  no  struggle ;  no  contest ;  no  evil ;  no 
wrong ;  no  progress.  There  can  be  only  manifestation 
of  the  One  in  harmony  and  in  purpose,  or  it  would  be 
self-destructive  and  there  would  in  time  be  not  even 
One. 

Cause.     The  One  manifests  in  many  million  ways,  but 

they  are  all  harmony,  all  good  and  right,  or 

they  are  all  discord,  and  evil  and  wrong.    To  Cause — 

the  One — these  names  are  not  given,  but  they  are  names 


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man  gives  to  effects.  They  are  very  readily  trans- 
ferable and  are  transferred  so  constantly  that  no 
standard  as  to  good,  etc.,  has  ever  been  found  perma- 
nent among  any  people,  and  never  one  for  the-  race. 
The  only  one  ever  held  in  theory  is  the  one  in  all  the- 
ologies, which  is  the  belief  that  the  Supreme  Power 
can  do  no  wrong.  But  this  has  rarely  descended  to 
practical  application.  Yet  its  evidences  how  dimly 
man  has  seen,  but  how  truly  he  has  ever  felt,  the  fact 
which  science  to-day  demonstrates,  that  the  Universe  is 
one  energy.  Thus,  in  the  New  Philosophy,  these  terms 
mean  nothing  when  applied  to  nature,  but  are  signifi- 
cant when  applied  to  man  himself.  They  mean  in  him 
effects  of  the  one  Cause.  They  are  names  for  his  con- 
venience alone.  They  mean  nothing  as  to  Cause  itself. 


Fate.  Man  is  thus  his  own  Fate,  inasmuch  as  he  has 
power  to  choose,  to  use  and  to  name,  and,  as 
fast  as  he  learns  his  power,  to  control  the  manifesta- 
tions of  the  One,  he  shall  decide  how  and  when  this 
power  shall  in  manifestation  serve  him.  Thus,  in  fu- 
ture, man,  instead  of  being  slave,  or  creature,  to  an 
outside  power  as  in  all  the  past,  shall  BE  that  power, 
and  manifest  as  he  chooses ;  shall  make  all  other  man- 
ifestations obey  him  instead  of  obeying,  as  now.  He 
shall  no  longer  fear  a  god  outside  himself,  but  reverence 
himself  as  a  manifestation  of  the  Indivisible  God.  He 
shall  not  only  choose  how  he  shall  himself  manifest, 
but  he  shall  decide  how  all  other  manifestations  shall 
affect  him,  or  whether  they  shall  affect  him  at  all.  And 
he  shall  control  all  manifestations  of  a  less  pitch  in  vi- 
bration than  his  own,  be  they  manifestations  known 
as  heat  or  human  thought.  He  will,  by  choice,  adapt 
manifestations  to  himself,  or  himself  to  vibrations, 
until  he  finds  his  ideal  of  happiness,  or,  what  is  the 
same,  until  every  manifestation  of  the  One  gives  him 
pleasure. 


THROUGH  SUGGESTION.  11 

Man.  All  reasoning  will  hereafter  be  from  Man,  and 
from  Man  as  center  of  the  universe,  and  from 
the  universe  only  as  the  circumference  of  Man.  It  is 
with  Man  alone,  then,  that  Soul  Culture  deals.  Man  is 
to  us  the  representative  of  All.  In  him  we  find  All ;  and 
in  studying  him,  we  study  All.  If  science  wants  to 
use  the  term  Force,  let  it  be  understood  that  it  is  the 
same  to  Soul  Culture  as  the  term  I  use — Spirit.  Not 
yet  has  Spirit  to  science  the  same  meaning  as  Force. 
Therefore,  Spirit  is  used  here.  Both  are  terms  for 

THAT    WHICH    IS THE    I    AM    THAT    I    AM.       For    Truth 

knows  only  unity — "The  one  that  inhabiteth  eternity.'' 
Man  is,  therefore  all  the  rest  is.  Without  the  ear,  no 
sound ;  without  the  eye,  no  light ;  without  the  nerve, 
no  sensation.  Hence  without  Man,  no  anything.  With- 
out Man,  no  God — no  One.  Man  is  All. 

Logic*  This  is  logic.  Dare  we  accept  it  and  live 
it?  Soul  Culture  says:  Yes.  Can  we  dem- 
onstrate our  logic  to  be  the  truth  ?  Soul  Culture  does. 
Hence  the  "about  face"  that  must  come  in  science. 
Where  it  now  looks  outside  Man  to  vibration,  it  will 
look  within  and  declare  Sensation  to  be  All.  For, 
despite  learned  libraries,  all  that  is  known  is  Sensa- 
tion. When  man  is  wise,  he  will  study  only  Sensation, 
for  Sensation  is  to  Man — All.  Where  man  now  knows 
only  in  part,  all  will  then  be  opened  to  him.  Where 
he  "now  sees  through  a  glass  darkly,"  he  will  then, 
as  Spirit,  see  Cause  face  to  face.  How?  By  recog- 
nizing faculties  in  himself  that  allay  him  with  Cause, 
by  recognizing  himself  as  part  of  the  indivisible 
One.  In  fact,  through  his  recognition  of  oneness  with 
Spirit,  he  will  declare  himself  Spirit,  and  hence  re- 
gard himself  as  Cause.  Nothing  comes  except  by  evo- 
lution. And,  as  the  faculties  we  now  manifest  have 
been  gradually  developed  because  the  Soul  pushed  them 
out  and  then  they  have  been  cultivated,  so  have  the 
psychic  faculties  by  which  we  take  hold  on  Cause 
instinctively  made  themselves  manifest.  Now  we  have 


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to  be  only  equally  wise  in  cultivating  them.  As  our 
ancestors  have  been  cultivating  eye  and  hand,  so  must 
we  cultivate  these  psychic  faculties  and  by  thus  be- 
coming a  conscious  factor  in  our  own  evolution,  become 
soon  consciously  one  with  Unity. 

Matter*  This  intellectual  position  ignores  entirely 
the  thought  of  physical  Man.  Since  matter 
and  motion  are  one,  Man  cannot  be  two;  i.  e.,  matter 
and  motion.  If  matter  is,  then  physical  Man  is.  If 
motion  is,  then  Man  is  motion.  Therefore,  let  us  be 
logical  and  say : — All  is  matter,  hence  Man  is  matter — 
or,  say  all  is  motion,  hence  Man  is  motion 
— Spirit.  Both  physical  and  spiritual,  Man  cannot  be. 
Science  has  decided  this  forever.  There  is  only  mo- 
tion. Matter  is  only  a  form  of  motion ;  so  is  heat ;  so 
are  the  other  so-called  physical  forces.  By  telepathy, 
thought  and  emotion  have  been  demonstrated  to  be  mo- 
tion ;  therefore,  no  longer  can  Man  be  thought  of  as  a 
physical  being. 

Evolution,  Here  is  the  key  to  the  coming  evolution. 
This  Man  of  unity  explains  the  vagaries, 
sophistries,  mysticisms  of  "Christian  Science,"  Theoso- 
phy,  and  kindred  movements.  Their  teachers  perceive 
this  truth  dimly,  but,  lacking  the  scientific  spirit,  they 
have  become  blinded  by  the  excess  of  light.  Science 
will  explain  the  manifestations  of  all  these,  as  it  has  ex- 
plained those  with  which  it  has  already  dealt  and  will 
find  the  One  Force  behind  all.  That  force  Man  can 
know  and  master.  Gods,  angels,  mahatmas,  spirits,  if 
they  exist,  are  either  human  or  of  human  creation. 
Above  Man,  there  can  be  nothing ;  for,  beyond  "Spirit 
conscious  of  its  own  existence,"  (Hegel's  definition  of 
Man),  nothing  is  possible.  Man  may  manifest  to  in- 
finity. Some  man  well  developed  may  show  himself  to 
one  less  developed,  and  he  who  sees  may  say,  "God," 
"Mahatma,"  etc,  But  what  of  that  ?  What  he  is,  I  am. 


THROUGH  SUGGESTION,  13 

Not  To  declare  that  Man  is  not  physical,  is 

Eddyism*  as  far  from  the  Eddy  folly  of  saying, 
"You  have  no  body,"  as  it  would  have 
been,  when  Copernicus  said,  'The  sun  stands  still," 
to  have  said,  "There  is  no  earth."  We  have  body,  as 
we  have  thought,  and  even  the  most  strenuous  Eddyite 
will  think.  Both  body  and  thought  are  manifestations 
of  force  and  only  differ  as  heat  and  light  differ — in 
pitch,  (length  and  speed  of  vibration). 
To  this  conception  of  nature,  are  all  these  various  sys- 
tems of  "Divine  Science,"  "Christian  Science,"  and 
other  more  or  less  true  philosophies,  bringing  the  com- 
mon mind.  They  are  Johns,  some  of  them  not  clad 
even  in  the  skins  and  camel's  hair  of  truth,  but  all  crying 
in  a  wilderness  of  materialistic  thinking,  "Prepare  ye 
the  way."  And  lo,  here  comes  the  Messiah  of  Science, 
saying; — "I  am  Unity," 

Sensation*  Sound,  light,  heat,  electricity,  magnetism, 
phosphoresence,  X-ray,  chemical  affinity, 
and  other  known  forms  of  force  are  now  known  to  be 
one,  differing  only  in  rates  of  vibration.  Therefore 
must  we,  in  this  thought  of  unity,  now  study  man  and 
regard  not  only  body,  but  thought,  love,  hate,  sorrow, 
sexual  passion,  and  all  other  emotions  as  forms  of  the 
one  energy,  differing  only  in  the  rate  of  vibration. 
That  is,  we  have  to  study  only  the  effect  of  vibration 
upon  self — that  is,  study  Sensation, 

Force*  As  force  and  as  a  manifestation  of  force,  Man 
can  be  as  intelligently  studied  as  have  been  the 
recognized  forces  of  science  and  their  effects.  And, 
as  Man  has  learned  to  control  those  for  his  benefit,  so 
can  he  learn  to  control  this  force  which  is  himself.  He 
as  force,  manifests  as  thought,  emotion,  and  psychic 
power.  As  he  has  interrogated  nature  and,  by  experi- 
ment, learned  to  weigh,  measure  and  control  what  he 
calls  physical  force,  he  can,  by  experiment,  learn  to  con- 


14  How  TO  CONTROL  FATE 

sciously  use  and  control  this  force  called  psychic  or  spir- 
itual. He  is  now  almost  entirely  unconscious  of  it  and 
it  uses  him  instinctively  as  once  did  electricity.  As  he 
now  uses  one  and  is  master,  he  can  use  the  other  and  be 
MASTER  OF  SELF. 

Intelligent  To  learn  to  do  voluntarily  and  consciously 
Use*  what  he  is  now  doing  involuntarily  and  un- 

consciously, i.  e.,  manifesting  life,  is  now 
the  field  of  human  achievement.  I  predict  that  when 
once  man  has  found  the  way,  he  will  have  no  use  for 
all  the  present  cumbrous  machinery  called  science,  nor 
for  much  of  the  present  mechanical  or  motive  powers. 
Occult  manifestations  of  the  One  power  will  do  all  that 
is  now  done  and  more,  with  less  labor,  cost  of  friction 
than  is  possible  even  with  liquid  air.  "Chalk  marks 
don't  draw  cars,"  once  said  a  railroad  man.  But  we 
are  much  nearer  to  the  time  when  some  manifesta- 
tion of  force  less  tangible  than  chalk  marks  will  draw 
cars,  than  was  the  possibility  of  lightning  drawing  them 
when  Franklin  drew  it  from  the  clouds,  or  we  then  were 
to  the  possibility  of  wireless  telegraphy.  Chinese  used 
powder  in  play  centuries  before  Christian  nations  used 
it  to  kill ;  so  Hindoo  jugglers  use  occult  forces  to-day, 
but  the  Anglo-Saxon  will  use  them  in  work.  I  believe 
the  Anglo-Saxon  is  "the  coming  man"  who  will  not 
only  conquer  the  world,  but  will  also  conquer  the  near, 
but  unseen,  realm  of  psychic  power. 

Spirit*  As  spirit,  to  be  e-du-coed  (drawn  out,  edu- 
cated) is  man  in  the  New  Thought — Man  is 
Spirit  with  unlimited  power  of  manifestation.  As  the 
recognition  of  Man  as  soul  and  body  has  led  to  the 
present  development,  until  now  he  finds  himself  limited 
in  manifestation  by  this  dual  conception  of  Man  and 
Nature,  even  so  by  this  idea  of  unity  of  Nature  and  of 
Man  as  Spirit,  will  he  be  freed.  He  can  then  manifest 
without  limitation  and  will  thus  usher  in  the  new  civili- 
zation waiting  just  ahead  of  us. 


THROUGH  SUGGESTION.  15 

We  are  What  All  that  has,  in  this  thought  of  duality, 
We  Think*  been  affirmed  of  Man  is  false  when  he 
is  considered  in  this  thought  of  unity. 
Facts  will  not  change,  but  our  mental  attitudes  respect- 
ing them  do  change.  This  will  virtually  change  to  us 
all  things,  for  facts  are  to  us  what  we  think  them  to  be. 
This  applies  even  to  the  one  fact  that  makes  all  other 
facts  possible — that  one  fact  is  ourselves.  We  are  in 
manifestation  what  we  think  we  are.  Therefore,  if  we 
think  we  are  body  and  mind,  we  shall  manifest  as  body 
and  mind ;  if  we  think  we  are  worms  of  the  dust,  we 
shall  live  dust ;  if  we  think  we  are  gods  (as  we  are),  we 
shall  live  as  gods.  Thus  will  this  thought  of  the  uni- 
verse and  of  Man  as  Unity — as  Spirit — work  a  greater 
revolution  in  life's  manifestation  than  was  ever 
wrought  before  by  any  discovery,  invention,  or  philos- 
ophy. 

Preparation*  He  who  would  take  up  the  study  of  Man 
as  Spirit  must  be  willing  to  lay  aside  all 
preconceived  opinions  of  Man  and  Nature,  forget  all 
science  has  said  except  this  thought  of  unity,  for  unity 
is  the  only  fact,  except  the  law  by  which  it  manifests, — 
evolution, — that  is  of  any  practical  benefit  to  him.  In 
this  study  of  Man,  he  is  to  ignore  all  present  thought 
of  body,  thinking  of  it  as  only  a  manifestation  of  Spirit 
— as  the  materialized  clothing  of  Spirit.  In  this 
thought,  all  I  have  said  and  may  say  is  true ;  under  the 
old  thought  of  duality,  all  I  have  said  or  may  say  is 
false.  This  mental  attitude  is  the  one  indispensable 
requisite.  One  may  obtain  facts  in  the  supposed  realm 
of  matter  while  he  is  repugnant  to  them ;  but,  in  the 
psychic  realm,  to  recognize  facts,  one  must  be  receptive, 
otherwise  he  is  like  the  blind  man  seeking  to  be  con- 
vinced of  color. 

Vibration.     To   the    Soul    Culturist,    all   thought   of 

duality  of  essence  has  passed  away,  as  have 

the  myths  of  the  middle  ages,  and  he  recognizes  only  a 


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duality  of  manifestation,  as  Cause  and  Effect.  To  him 
in  his  relation  to  the  Without  (the  external  universe), 
there  is  only  one  Cause,— VIBRATION.  This  vibra- 
tion is  the  only  possible  manifestation  of  Unity.  In 
himself,  he  knows  but  one  Effect,— SENSATION. 
Sensation  is  the  only  possible  manifestation  of  Unity 
in  him.  This  manifestation  we  call  LIFE, 


Sensation*  As  the  rates  of  vibration  vary,  so  do  the 
sensations  vary.  As  the  possible  number 
of  different  vibrations  is  infinite,  so  the  possible  number 
of  sensations  is  infinite.  Man,  then,  is  infinite  in  possi- 
bility here  and  now.  He  has  only  to  develop  his  power 
to  recognize  sensations  and  of  the  many  million  vibra- 
tions that  are  constantly  impinging  upon  him  to  choose 
those  to  which  he  will  respond,  and  those  which  he  will 
harness  to  do  his  work.  Emerson's  favorite  saying  may 
yet  be  true  in  mechanics:  "Hitch  your  wagon  to  a 
star."  Man  will  learn  to  recognize,  to  reproduce,  and 
to  enjoy  those  sensations  he  chooses ;  and  will  learn  to 
ignore  those  which  are  to  him  unpleasant.  He  will 
thus  become  his  own  Fate  and  Destiny. 

The  The  New  Man  will  have  no  senses,  but  he 

New  Man*  will  be  sensation.  He  will  not  be  limited 
to  five  senses,  but  will  constantly  increase  his  recogni- 
tion of  sensation,  and,  thus  becoming  more  sensitive,  he 
will,  in  the  ages  to  come,  find  himself  responsive  to  every 
vibration  in  space.  Then  he  will  know  ALL.  A  text- 
book on  Physics,  "up-to-date,"  now  in  use  in  our  col- 
leges, gives  this  definition  of  heat:  "Heat  is  either  a 
sensation,  or  that  which  produces  a  sensation."  This 
is  a  definition  that  could  be  given  of  everything  that 
man  feels  and  of  every  feeling.  It  is  true ;  the  author 
told  more  than  he  intended.  Everything  external  to 
man  "is  that  which  produces  a  sensation,"  and  every- 
thing within  him  "is  a  sensation," 


THROUGH  SUGGESTION.  17 

Definition  This  is  all  the  definition  Physics  gives 
by  Physics*  of  the  phenomena  of  nature.  We  can 
say  of  air,  water,  electricity,  light,  etc., 
etc.,  they  are  sensations  in  man,  and  they  are  that  which 
produces  these  sensations.  But,  really,  the  author  could 
have  said :  "Heat  is  in  man  a  sensation  made  by  vibra- 
tions of  a  certain  wave  length  and  speed."  This  would 
also  be  true  of  everything  else.  He  would  have  to  go 
farther  yet  and  give  the  length  and  speed  of  the  wave. 
This  would  help  the  intellect  to  grasp  an  idea  of  heat, 
but  the  man  knows  by  feeling  what  is  beyond  every  pos- 
sible definition.  Heat  is  sensation.  The  child  knows  it 
by  feeling,  and  the  scientist  knows  no  more.  Where  is 
the  place  to  study  heat,  in  stove  or  in  man?  Without 
man,  there  is  no  heat.  To  one  under  proper  Suggestion, 
there  is  none.  Again,  the  hypnotic  subject  under  Sug- 
gestion is  burned  to  a  blister  by  a  cold  coin.  Where  is. 
heat  ?  We  answer, — in  sensation.  Thought  can  as  well 
produce  sensation  as  can  those  vibrations  which  science 
recognizes,  for  Thought  is  also  a  vibration.  Now  let 
science  revise  her  definitions  and  her  conclusions. 

Finer  Not  with  the  ordinary  vibrations  caught 

Vibrations*  by  science  does  Soul  Culture  deal.  It 
deals  with  those  which  science  has  not 
yet  caught;  with  thpse  that  can  burn  with  cold  steel; 
with  those  that  enable  the  surgeon  to  amputate  with- 
out either  anesthesia,  or  pain,  or  blood,  or  inflamma- 
tion ;  with  those  that  carry  messages  from  mind  to 
mind  without  wire  or  battery;  and  with  those  that 
enable  lovers  to  enjoy  a  communion,  each  with  each, 
though  they  are  at  antipodes.  These  vibrations  pro- 
duce sensations  as  palpable  to  the  one  able  to  recognize 
them  as  are  those  of  heat  and  cold. 

All  Knowledge     Thus  is  it  that  all  knowledge  is  open 
Possible.  to  Man,  not  by  the  development  of 

new  senses,  but  by  learning  to  recog- 
nize sensation  as  all  of  life  to  him,  and  by  distinguish- 
ing those  beyond  the  limit  of  the  five  senses.  He  will 


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thus  come  to  the  fulfillment  of  the  prophecy  of  the 
Psalmist  and  have  "conscious  dominion  over  all 
things."  This  is  now  seen  in  possibility.  It  is  the 
object  of  Soul  Culture  to  lead  Man  intelligently  to 
this, — his  own. 

Race  The    Anglo-Saxon    race    is    growing 

Sensitiveness,  more  sensitive,  and,  as  a  result,  is  man- 
ifesting psychic  powers  to  a  marked 
degree.  Inspiration  is  poured  out  in  all  directions  as 
never  before  during  the  historic  period.  Invention, 
discovery,  research,  are  in  evidence,  while  literature  of 
all  kinds  comes  in  floods,  and  from  pulpit  and  platform 
the  divine  afflatus  pours  in  tremendous  streams.  Every- 
body feels  able  to  write  or  declaim.  It  is  the  develop- 
ing power  of  man  to  feel  the  finer  vibrations,  and, 
though  he  does  not  know  the  reason  and  does  not 
understand  the  power,  yet,  as  he  has  instinctively 
obeyed  the  coarser  ones,  so  is  he  instinctively  obeying 
these.  We  thus  account  for  the  medium,  the  healer, 
and  the  psychic.  It  is  thus  we  have  our  geniuses  and 
our  abnormalities,  like  Blind  Tom.  They  are  all  act- 
ing as  aspen  leaves  act  in  the  wind,  under  the  finer 
vibrations  of  Unity. 

Diseases  and  Because  of  this  sensitiveness,  there  is 
Survival.  an  increase  of  disease  and  diseases, 

especially  nervous  diseases.  They  will 
increase  until  we  learn  how  to  control  these  finer  forces. 
The  "struggle  for  life"  has  now  been  transferred  to  the 
psychic  plane,  and  those  who  cannot  live  under  the 
intense  strain  on  the  organism,  caused  by  this  increased 
sensitiveness,  must  die  off,  leaving  the  hardier  ones  to 
keep  up  the  stock. 

Saviors.     For  this  reason,  there  is  a  demand  from  the 
race  instinct  for  saviors.     In  supplying  this 
demand,  they  come  in  droves,  each  with  varying  per- 
ceptions of  truth.    The  regular  M.  D.'s  already  fear  for 


THROUGH  SUGGESTION.  19 

their  trade,  as  it  is  going  before  the  incoming  tide  of 
clairvoyants,  magnetic  healers,  "Scientists"  of  many 
kinds,  and,  last  of  all,  before  Suggestive  Therapeutics. 
These  are  all  natural  results  of  increased  sensitiveness. 
Nature  always  balances  her  manifestations.  With  the 
illness,  due  to  increased  sensitiveness,  relief  comes  in 
methods  of  healing  adapted  to  that  sensitiveness.  As 
bleeding  went  out  with  the  hardy  pioneer  age  that 
could  stand  it,  in  came  milder  systems,  and  finally  these 
came  that  discard  medicine.  Through  use  of  Nature's 
finer  forces,  Man  is  not  only  healed  of  disease,  but  is 
made  positive  to  unpleasant  sensations.  "You  do  not 
feel  the  prick  of  the  pin,"  says  the  hypnotist.  So  says 
the  intelligent  healer :  "You  do  not  respond  now  to  the 
vibrations  of  pain.  As  you  will  not  see  that  which  is 
unpleasant,  or  hear  that  which  is  discordant,  so  you  will 
not  feel  that  which  is  painful.  You  have  within  your 
control  the  power  of  sensation.  You  can  feel  only  what 
you  will." 

Progress*  The  progress  of  civilization  depends  now 
not  on  the  arts  and  sciences,  not  on  schools 
or  churches,  but  on  attaining  the  knowledge  and  mas- 
tery of  these  finer  vibrations.  These  psychic  manifesta- 
tions often  produce  some  disturbance  in  the  body,  caus- 
ing one  to  depart  from  ordinary  customs  and  manners. 
This  causes  some  philosophers  to  cry:  "Degeneracy." 
Some  peculiar  mental  conditions  cause  others  to  cry, 
"Insanity  is  on  the  increase,"  or  some  peculiarity  of 
conduct  causes  the  cry,  "Crime  is  on  the  increase," 
while  the  cause  is  only  an  increase  of  psychic  sensitive- 
ness. The  race  is,  at  the  close  of  this  cycle,  taking  an- 
other step  forward.  Could  one  of  the  present  croakers 
have  seen  the  first  eye  that  blinked  at  the  sun  and  died 
from  excess  of  sensation,  but,  dying,  prophesied  the  eye 
of  man,  he  would  have  said  of  that  individual  speci- 
men of  the  species :  "Degenerate."  Could  the  medical 
professions  that  now  cry  "fraud"  and  "deterioration" 
in  view  of  the  many  isms  of  to-day,  have  stood  by  the 


20  How  TO  CONTROL  FATE 

first  man  that  made  a  bow,  and  seen  how,  by  con- 
finement and  labor,  he  had  changed  from  the  rest  of 
the  tribe,  they  would  have  recommended  change  of 
climate  and  said :  "The  race  is  going  physically  and 
morally  backward,"  when,  in  fact,  it  was  going 
ahead,  outgrowing  the  conservative's  sight. 

Law*  If  some  of  the  present  over-anxious  and  med- 
dling moral  reformers  who,  failing  to  suppress 
vice  and  to  regulate  morals  by  law,  are  now  trying  to 
prevent  the  blessings  of  hypnotism  from  becoming 
known,  could  have  seen  primitive  man  lay  off  the  skin 
of  the  animal  he  had  worn,  they  would  have  exclaimed  : 
"Immoral !  The  race  is  becoming  too  vile  to  live."  Yet 
through  similar  changes  has  the  race  passed.  The 
manifestations  of  Unity  through  humanity  are  pro- 
gressive, despite  prognostications  of  evil  and  decay. 
The  race  will  pass  safely  through  this  change  from  in- 
stinctive action  to  intelligent  and  consciously  predeter- 
mined action,  and  thus  will  dethrone  every  "absentee" 
god  and  enthrone  Unity  within.  It  will  defy  all  law 
by  being  itself  Law. 

Conduct.  In  all  these  changes,  the  Ego  is  manifesting 
more  and  more  of  its  own  infinity.  The 
Ego  power  of  perceiving  what  is,  gradually  reveals 
Truth  to  the  intellect  through  sensation.  "For 
thoughts,"  says  Edward  Carpenter,  "are  only  dying 
feelings."  When  we  feel  deep  enough,  that  is,  when 
we  suffer  enough,  we  seek  the  cause  and,  in  seeking, 
find  and  grow.  Sensations  that  cannot  be  endured  are 
avoided  or  cured.  We  learn  to  choose  instinctively  the 
pleasurable  and  to  avoid  the  opposite.  This  is  our  only 
conscious  way  of  deciding  what  the  Ego  wants.  It  is 
equivalent  to  Spencer's  dictum,  "Health-giving  acts 
are  pleasurable,"  and  to  Prof.  Elmer  Gates'  discovery 
that  "pleasurable  emotions  are  healthful,  and  the  oppo- 
site are  poisonous."  The  Ego,  which  is  a  manifestation 


THROUGH  SUGGESTION,  21 

of  Unity,  finds  by  the  sensation  of  pleasure  the  best 
way  to  unfold  its  individuality.  It  is  Emerson's  wise 
and  comprehensive  advice:  "Trust  the  current  that 
knows  its  way." 

Ego  Above  By  noting  sensations,  we  discover  regu- 
Law*  larity  and  coincidences  that  we  call  laws. 

In  the  materialistic  worship  of  this  fetish 
of  Law,  sight  is  lost  of  the  greater  fact  that  Spirit  (and 
therefore  the  Ego  as  a  part  of  the  undivided  Spirit)  is 
itself  Law,  and  hence  above  all  law. 

Practical  Here  is  a  hint  of  the  practical  work  of  Soul 
Work.  Culture.  It  works  with  manifestation,  with 
the  design  of  controlling  manifestation.  It 
recognizes  Soul  not  as  something  yet  to  be,  or  that 
which  is  beyond  conception,  but  as  something  that  now 
is.  It  works  with  Man  as  Soul.  Soul  Force,  or  Spirit, 
is  as  thinkable,  as  real,  and  as  workable  as  electricity. 
Affirming  as  an  individual,  "I  am  the  Spirit,"  the  Soul 
Culturist  Thinks  Spirit,  and  lives  Spirit,  and  manifests 
consciously  the  powers  of  Spirit.  He  acts  that  which 
he  affirms,  lives  that  which  he  professes,  and  knows 
himself  as  Spirit. 

No  As  Spirit  cannot  feel  pain,  or  be  sick  or  die, 

Sickness*  he  knows,  as  an  individual  Spirit,  he  can- 
not be  sick,  or  have  pain  or  die.  These 
conditions  are  to  him  only  manifestations  of  different 
mental  attitudes  or  states  of  consciousness.  They  are 
real  to  his  consciousness  //  he  will  think  of  them,  if  he 
will  recognize  them,  but  they  are  not  real  to  him  as 
Spirit.  Whenever  he  changes  his  mental  attitude  and 
refuses  to  recognize  them,  they  do  not  exist,  for  he,  by 
recognition,  becomes  the  creator  of  these  conditions ; 
they  are  the  effects  of  his  thinking. 


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Man  His  Own     It  is  the  same  with  all  unpleasant 
Creator  of  conditions  called  sorrow,  grief,  trou- 

Conditions.  ble,   worry,   jealousy — with  all  that 

makes  one  unhappy.  They  are  in 
man  effects  of  his  feeling  or  thinking.  They  are  pro- 
duced in  him  by  Suggestion  as  similar  ones  are  pro- 
duced in  hypnotic  subjects.  Man  is,  therefore,  his  own 
creator.  He  can  produce  within  himself,  at  will,  either 
pleasant  or  unpleasant  emotions,  thus  making  himself, 
at  will,  happy  or  unhappy,  well  or  sick,  wise  or  foolish. 

Recognition.  The  first  thing  necessary  for  the  devel- 
opment of  this  power  is  simply  for  one 
to  recognize  himself  as  Spirit.  Jesus,  who  was  spirit- 
ually developed,  must  have  meant  this  when  he  said, 
"He  that  believeth  and  is  baptized  is  saved,"  for  all  the 
water  of  "the  river  of  life"  would  run  off  the  unbeliever 
without  producing  any  effect,  because,  by  refusal  to 
recognize  the  power,  it  would  not  exist  for  him.  Small 
discharges  of  electricity  kill,  and  extremely  great  ones 
are  not  felt ;  even  so  does  this  mighty  power  of  Spirit 
pass  through  one  constantly  unrecognized,  until  sought 
for ;  then  it  is  found,  as  all  else  has  been  found,  through 
recognition  of  sensation. 

Scientific  This  is  asking  of  one  only  that  same  faith 
Faith.  which  the  scientist  has  when  experimenting. 
He  would  not  experiment  if  he  did  not  be- 
lieve in  the  possibility  of  finding.  Give  the  same  ready 
mind  to  Spirit,  and,  in  that  receptivity,  the  Recognition 
will  come.  Once  Recognition  is,  then  all  things  asked 
for  are  possible. 

Desire.  Next  to  Recognition,  is  Desire.  It  is  the  atti- 
tude of  true  prayer,  "the  heart's  sincere  de- 
sire, uttered  or  unexpressed."  In  desire,  the  way  is 
open  for  the  "current  that  knows  its  way"  to  flow  un- 
hampered. 


THROUGH  SUGGESTION.  23 

Liberty.  Liberty  of  Spirit  is  thus  won.  Without  this 
liberty,  no  spiritual  growth.  The  last  lib- 
erty to  be  won  is  "the  liberty  of  the  sons  of  God": — the 
liberty  to  act  as  Spirit,  independent  of  all  external  con- 
ditions. Ignorance  and  fear  have  fettered  and  im- 
prisoned the  Soul  with  rites,  ceremonies,  customs, 
prejudices,  laws,  etiquette,  conformity,  policy,  mone- 
tary considerations,  social  considerations,  and  hypoc- 
risy, so  that  few  dare  to  think  their  souls  are  their  own, 
much  less  to  say  so,  and,  least  of  all,  to  live  as  Soul 
demands. 

Be  But  he  who  would  become  developed   in 

Thyself.  Spirit,  must,  above  all  other  things,  be  free. 
"Be  thyself,"  is  the  first  command  of  Soul 
Culture.  Hark  to  its  Prophet  (Emerson)  in  his  incom- 
parable essay  on  "Self-Reliance" :  "Whoso  would  be  a 
man  must  be  a  non-conformist.  Nothing  at  last  is 
sacred  but  the  integrity  of  your  own  mind.  Absolve 
you  to  yourself,  and  you  shall  have  the  suffrage  of  the 
world."  Liberty  is  the  way,  and  the  only  way,  to  soul 
growth.  It  is  the  way  man  has  ever  traveled.  There 
never  is  a  precedent  for  any  progressive  step.  Freedom 
never  dwells  in  old  temples.  Like  the  nautilus,  she  is 
building  herself  a  new  dwelling  each  successive  morn. 
Freedom  is  the  ever  growing  stem  of  the  tree  of  life. 
Conservatism  is  her  grave,  and  the  grave  of  all  that  is 
manly.  Without  liberty,  man  is  dead ;  a  slave  lives  in 
his  place.  If  one  would  gain  power  to  be  Destiny,  he 
must  be  free. 

Effort*  The  next  demand  is  Effort.  All  effort  here 
must  be  spiritual.  By  physical  effort,  we  can 
learn  in  that  realm  of  vibrations  termed  matter.  By  in- 
tellectual effort,  learn  in  the  intellectual  realm.  "But 
spiritual  things  must  be  spiritually  discerned."  Meth- 
ods of  investigation  in  other  fields  are  here  of  no  use. 
Spiritual  phenomena  (or  psychic,  whichever  term  you 
please)  occupy  a  field  of  their  own,  and  must  be  found 


24  How  TO  CONTROL  FATE 

by  their  own  methods.  Effort  must  therefore  be  made 
as  Spirit.  That  is,  in  Recognition  of  himself  as  Spirit, 
one  must  place  himself  in  the  mental  attitude  of  re- 
ceptivity and  desire,  and  be  willing  to  receive  whatever 
comes.  In  this  negative  attitude  of  mind,  he  waits  for 
the  Ego  to  manifest  as  desired. 

Non-  The  next  law  is : — Never  antagonise  any- 

Resistance.  thing.  Never  antagonize  any  thing,  opin- 
ion or  condition,  even  in  feeling.  All  is 
Spirit,  therefore  All  is  Good.  "Nothing  but  good  can, 
or  does  come  to  me,  therefore  I  will  not  antagonize  any 
manifestation,  but  let  it  work  in  me  the  good  whereunto 
it  was  sent.  For  all  the  possible  evil  results  wrill  be 
those  /  make  by  doubting  the  goodness  of  Unity  in 
this  manifestation,  and,  since  I  am  m^.  own  Fate  and 
since  I  make  Fate  by  deciding  how  to  receive  each 
manifestation,  I  decide  this  is  Good,  for  All  is  Good. 
I  thus  do  as  he  did  who  first  taught  me  Soul  Culture. 
Resist  not  evil,  but  overcome  it  in  the  large  affirma- 
tion, All  is  Good.  I  thus  keep  my  mind  quiet,  to  per- 
ceive and  reveal  truth.  Were  I  to  contend,  I  would 
not  see  clearly,  neither  would  I  reveal  the  truth,  but 
would  conceive  much  error.  Therefore,  I  will  hence- 
forth think  only  Good — will  never  antagonize." 
Such  must  be  the  mental  attitude  of  one  who  is 
anxious  to  lead  the  spiritual  life. 

Demonstration.  Demonstration  must  take  the  place 
of  argument.  Therefore  the  next 
law  of  Soul  Culture  is: — Never  argue.  "Let  your 
light  shine  that  men  seeing  your  good  works"  shall 
know  you  are  Spirit,  shall  know  you  love  Truth.  Affirm 
Spirit,  and,  by  living  as  Spirit,  demonstrate  your  are 
Spirit.  You  live  Spirit  by  thinking  Spirit  and  by  let- 
ting that  thought  control  your  life.  Soul  Culture  comes 
through  doing.  Here  again  comes  in  the  thought  of 
the  wise  Teacher :  "I  must  be  about  my  Father's  busi- 
ness":  "My  Father  worketh  hitherto  and  I  work." 


THROUGH  SUGGESTION.  25 

"He  that  doeth  the  will  of  my  Father,  the  same  is  my 
mother  and  sister  and  brother."  "If  ye  love  me,  keep 
my  commandments."  He  always  insisted  that  through 
conduct  spiritual  development  is  demonstrated.  Never 
once  did  he  ask,  "What  do  you  think?"  or  "What  do 
you  believe?" 

Self-  The  next  rule  is : — Intend  the  mind  in  the 

Direction*  direction  in  which  you  wish  revelation. 
One  familar  with  the  terms  of  hypnotism 
will  understand  when  I  say,  control  the  mind  by  Auto- 
Suggestion.  From  the  sub-conscious  storehouse  of  all 
knowledge,  the  Ego  itself,  can  thus  be  drawn  what- 
ever is  desired  in  the  way  of  wisdom.  The  mind  can 
also  thus  be  directed  to  the  development  of  psychic 
faculties.  These  faculties  take  hold  on  infinity  both  of 
time  and  space.  Nothing  is  hidden  from  Soul  percep- 
tion. All  the  Soul's  powers  are  comprised  in  two,  so 
aptly  stated  by  Emerson  thus:  "The  Soul  is  the  per- 
ceiver  and  revealer  of  truth ;"  to  perceive  and  to  reveal 
truth  being  all  that  the  Soul  can  do,  yet,  while  the 
method  of  perception  is  ever  one,  there  are  many  meth- 
ods of  revelation  already  recognized,  and  there  may  be 
many  others  to  come  in  our  future  unfoldment.  Per- 
ceptions are  revealed  merely  as  truth,  or  they  are  re- 
vealed in  terms  of  time  and  space.  We  thus  get  the 
names  respectively  of  intuition  and  inspiration,  to  des- 
ignate the  revelations  of  truth ;  of  clairvoyance  and  tele- 
pathy, to  designate  those  of  space ;  of  psychometry,  to 
designate  those  of  time.  In  practice,  these  shade  into 
each  other  as,  in  ordinary  life,  shade  the  results  of  the 
different  senses. 


Life —  The  first  manifestation  of  Spirit  is  Life. 
Health.  Therefore,  the  first  function  we  come  to  is 
health.  All  conditions  manifesting  less  than 
a  normal  state  of  health  are  those  of  less  health,  and 
not  those  of  disease.  They  are  the  results  of  spiritual 


26  How  TO  CONTROL  FATE 

weakness ;  for  some  cause,  Spirit  does  not  properly  man- 
ifest through  the  body.  The  chief,  if  not  the  only  diffi- 
culty, is  the  impediment  placed  on  the  manifestation  of 
Spirit  by  some  false  idea.  Some  affirmation  of  "Can't," 
of  weakness,  or  some  submission  to  conditions  through 
belief  in  heredity  or  in  the  impossibility  of  relief,  is 
the  cause  of  ill  health.  There  is  no  "let''  to  ''the  current 
that  knows  its  way."  Therefore,  the  first  care  of  the 
Soul  Culturist  is  "to  let"  his  Spirit  have  its  way  in 
health.  This  is  easy.  Only  let  the  body  alone;  keep 
the  mind  off  of  it,  and  expect  it  to  be  kept  by  the  maker 
— Spirit — well.  He  is  to  think  and  affirm  only  Health. 

Spiritual  We  have  a  number  of  recognized  psychic 
Gifts*  powers — "spiritual  gifts" — but  I  wish  to 

add  a  few  that  are  not  generally  so  recog- 
nized. The  first  is  Music,  the  highest  and  purest  ex- 
pression of  soul.  All  art  is  purely  spiritual ;  and  the 
purer  the  art,  the  nearer  to  pure  Spirit.  The  more  any 
attempt  in  art  is  removed  from  all  considerations  of  life, 
except  love  for  the  art  itself — removed  from  monetary 
considerations,  from  precedent,  morality,  etc. — the 
purer  the  art  and  the  more  perfect  the  manifestation  of 
Spirit.  Wagner  is  credited  with  the  insight  of  saying : 
"If  we  had  real  life,  we  should  need  no  art."  The  love 
of  the  beautiful  is  the  test  of  spiritual  unfoldment. 
Beauty  is  Divinity.  Hence  all  the  fine  arts  are  psychic 
in  origin.  Poetry  is  especially  a  psychic  gift.  It  is  the 
child  of  beauty  and  melody.  Hence,  from  oracle  to 
seance,  we  have  the  improvisatrice,  and  all  men  in  their 
natural  state  and  all  children  are  poets. 

Classification  Thus  a  classification  of  the.  psychic 
of  Psychic  faculties  which  it  is  the  province  of 
Power*  Soul  Culture  to  develop  will  include 

Music,  Painting,  Sculpture,  Architec- 
ture, Landscape  Gardening,  Rhetoric,  Poetry,  Health, 
Inspiration,  Intuition,  Clairvoyance,  Telepathy,  Proph- 
ecy and  Psychometry.  We  here  have  a  field  comprising 


THROUGH  SUGGESTION.  27 

all  there  is  in  life  worth  living1  for,  all  there  is  to  reward 
one  for  living,  excepting  the  one  thing  that  is  above  all 
others,  and  above  all  classification,  for  that  one  thing  is 
the  very  highest  manifestation  of  Life ;  it  is  the  Ever- 
lasting Life,  the  pure  life  of  the  Spirit,  dimly  shining 
through  the  mists  of  error ;  it  is — LOVE. 


Love.  Love  is  the  first  and  last  expression  of  Spirit. 
Love  is  its  highest  and  purest  expression.  It 
is  the  highest  of  which  the  intellect  can  conceive.  It 
is  ever  the  controlling  force  in  life.  Each  individual 
is  controlled  by  his  loves ;  there  is  no  progress  for  him 
in  any  line  until  his  love  is  moved  in  that  direction ;  he 
then  moves  without  solicitation.  All  spiritual  develop- 
ment is  made  manifest  through  love.  It  is  the  barom- 
eter of  life  recording  in  manifestation  the  progress  of 
the  soul's  unfoldment.  Love  is  all  Paul  declared  it  to 
be  when  he  said  :  "The  greatest  of  these  is  Love."  It  is 
all  Jesus  declared  when  he  gave  the  new  commandment, 
''Love  one  another,"  thus  making  it  the  one  condition 
to  spiritual  life.  It  is  all  he  meant  when  he  said,  "God 
is  Love."  To  present  human  thought,  Love  is  the  high- 
est known  or  possible  manifestation  of  power.  It  rep- 
resents to  us  the  most  beneficent,  as  well  as  the  con- 
trolling, force  of  the  universe  within  man,  and,  since  it 
is  such,  it  must  be  his  God.  It  is  the  holiest  as  well  as 
the  most  powerful  of  emotions.  It  is  ever  present,  and 
is  the  force  out  of  which  all  the  rest  come.  Thought 
is  Love  reduced  in  potential  and  pitch. 


Ultimate  The  Soul  Culturist,  therefore,  must  deal 
Power*  with  Love  as  his  ultimate  power,  just  as 
the  electrician  deals  with  his  ultimate  power. 
He  does  this  by  methods  as  rational.  Recognizing  it 
as  the  one  force,  the  one  manifestation  of  Unity,  he 
seeks  in  Love  alone  to  unfold  his  psychic  powers, 


28  How  TO  CONTROL  FATE 

Speed  of  The  intensity  of  the  vibrations  of  Light 
Vibration  has  been  measured,  but  not  those  of  mag- 
netism, for  they  are  too  swift  for  any  con- 
ception of  time  to  enter  into  the  calculation  of  them. 
Thought  is  swifter  than  magnetism  by  multiplied 
vibration,  but  Love  is  many  times  the  multiplied  vibra- 
tions of  Thought.  Love  can  be  studied  by  its  mani- 
festations in  sensation,  as  sound  and  light  are  studied 
and  known. 

Love's  Pitch  Like  all  other  forms  in  which  Unity 
and  Octaves*  manifests  through  vibration,  Love  has 
its  pitch  and  its  octaves  and,  some- 
where in  the  infinite  scale,  each  human  life  is  placed. 
The  only  possible  development  of  any  life  is  to  raise  or 
lower  its  pitch,  to  increase  or  diminish  its  potential. 
How  to  do  this,  and  how  to  transform  Love  to  Thought 
in  obedience  to  the  mechanical  Law  of  Conservation  of 
Energy,  is  the  secret  the  Sphinx  of  Time  shall  yet 
reveal. 

Love  of  There  is  one  everpresent  starting  point  in 
Truth.  Soul  Culture — Love  of  Truth.  This  Love, 
it  must  not  be  forgotten,  is  power;  as  real 
power  as  is  steam  in  the  boiler.  It  is  the  power  that 
manifests  in  the  development  of  those  faculties  we  de- 
sire. Love  must  be  thought  of  as  Force,  must  be  held 
in  our  consciousness  as  Force,  just  as  the  electrician  in 
the  power-house  holds,  in  his  consciousness,  Force  as 
his  thought  of  electricity.  Love  of  Truth  is  our  initial 
point.  Love  of  Truth  is  the  power  with  which  we 
work.  "God  will  not  manifest  himself  to  cowards," 
says  Emerson ;  he  cannot,  if  He  would,  manifest  in 
liars,  hypocrites  and  slaves.  Only  to  the  extent  that  one 
is  truthful,  brave,  honest  and  loving,  has  he  any  inde- 
pendent spiritual  life.  All  that  he  may  seem  to  have  is 
but  the  race  accumulation  for  which  he  has  no  responsi- 
bility, and  hence  in  which  he  has  no  real  possession ;  he 


THROUGH  SUGGESTION.  29 

is  but  using  the  race  and  animal  instinct  instead  of 
being,  as  he  should  be,  an  independent,  self-controlled 
individual.  To  the  extent  that  men  manifest  love,  they 
are  spiritual.  As  far  as  they  control  their  love  through 
desire  for  truth  and  goodness,  they  are  human,  are  out- 
growing the  tiger  in  them  and  leaving  the  remnants  of 
the  ape  behind. 

Safety.  In  this  love  of  truth  alone  is  it  safe  to  seek 
psychic  unfoldment.  To  seek  in  any  other 
love,  is  to  fall  into  what  the  occultists  call  "black 
magic,"  which  is  the  development  of  power  without 
knowledge  or  guidance ;  is  putting  power  into  animal, 
into  undeveloped  man.  This,  like  all  undirected  or 
wrongly  directed  power,  injures  temporarily  the  indi- 
vidual. The  ultimate  result — unfoldment — is,  how- 
ever, the  same ;  but  this  road  leads  through,  it  may  be, 
centuries  of  suffering.  To  seek  in  any  other  than  love 
of  truth,  is  to  repeat  the  scandals,  the  sufferings,  fail- 
ures, and  complicated  work  of  the  Christian  sects  and 
of  mediumship ;  or  to  sink  into  the  intellectual  follies  of 
sectarian  "Christian  Scientists,"  who  have  abandoned 
love  of  truth  for  love  of  a  certain  expression  of  truth 
and  for  "a  founder"  of  a  sect.  Love  of  truth,  pure  and 
simple,  is  liberty ;  and,  without  liberty,  no  independent 
life,  no  living  Truth. 

The  Law*  To  seek  in  love  of  money,  power,  fame, 
or  any  lesser  motive  than  love  of  Good- 
ness and  Truth,  is  to  invite  suffering  and  development 
through  suffering.  It  is  "to  sow  corruption"  that  one 
may  reap  the  same.  The  law  is  :  "Seek  ye  first  the  king- 
dom of  Good  and  its  right  living,  then  all  spiritual 
growth  shall  be  added  unto  you."  There  is  no  limit  to 
human  manifestation  when  once,  by  this  means,  the 
way  is  opened.  One  thus  becomes  an  Enlightened  man. 
He  lives  in  "the  light  that  lighteth  every  man  that 
cometh  into  the  world."  The  light  is  in  himself.  He 
lives  neither  by  the  borrowed  light  of  his  neighbors, 
nor  of  his  century. 


30  How  TO  CONTROL  FATE 

Concentration*  In  this  Love-of-Truth,  let  one  concen- 
trate all  his  thoughts  and  desires  for  a 
time  each  day.  In  that  concentrated  state  of  mind,  ''let" 
the  soul  be  heard.  After  you  have,  by  desire  and  ex- 
pectancy, given  it  direction,  "let"  it  have  its  way.  In 
hypnotic  terms,  after  you  have  given  yourself  command 
by  Auto-Suggestion,  let  the  sub-conscious  part  of  your 
being  have  its  expression.  All  knowledge  and  power 
are  either  latent  in  the  soul  or  lie  behind  the  soul,  ready, 
on  opportunity,  to  flow  into  expression  and,  whenever 
they  are  "let,"  they  flow.  This  condition  of  "letting" 
is  that  of  natural  somnambulence ;  of  the  artificial  som- 
nambulence  of  hypnotism  ;  that  of  the  "Scientist"  when 
"In  the  Silence" ;  of  the  Hindoo  in  meditation ;  of  the 
crystal  gazer  and  the  card  reader.  It  is  concentration. 
The  thing  upon  which  the  gaze  is  concentrated,  or 
whether  or  not  there  be  anything,  is  unimportant.  The 
mental  state  is  all. 

Involuntary  This  is  identical  with  that  natural 
Concentration,  condition  of  involuntary  concentra- 
tion in  which  the  bookkeeper  calcu- 
lates in  midst  of  noise,  the  editor  writes  and  the  me- 
chanic works.  The  one  does  it  on  compulsion  of  .neces- 
sity till  it  becomes  habit,  the  other  does  it  with  a  pre- 
determined purpose  and  at  will.  Such  concentration  is 
the  key  to  success  in  every  direction ;  its  opposite — dif- 
fusion— is  the  cause  of  all  failure,  be  it  failure  in  health, 
business  or  love.  It  is  the  key  to  all  occult  and  ancient 
mysteries. 

Practice*  One  must,  therefore,  practice  concentration 
until  it  becomes  not  merely  habit,  but  a  new 
instinct.  One  must  learn  to  rise  above  the  life  of  sense, 
to  ignore  the  coarser  vibrations  and  the  sensations  that 
arise  from  them,  known  as  the  five  senses,  and  to  live 
in  the  finer  sensations.  That  the  hypnotic  subject  does 
this  and  opens  the  door  to  the  storehouse  of  the  sub- 


THROUGH  SUGGESTION.  31 

conscious,  demonstrates  that  every  person,  by  the  same 
process  of  Suggestion,  can  do  the  same.  In  Soul  Cul- 
ture, we  are  seeking  to  give  liberty  of  expression  to 
whatever  latent  knowledge  the  conscious  Ego  may 
desire  and  determine.  The  fundamental  affirmation,  I 
am  Spirit,  means,  I  am  all  that  Spirit  is.  The  Soul 
Culturist  affirms : — Since  Spirit  is  Truth,  Love,  Power, 
Wisdom,  I  am  Truth,  Love,  Power,  and  Wisdom.  I  am 
any  other  possible  manifestation  that  Spirit  is.  Spirit 
is  all  this  in  potentiality ;  I  may  be  all  this  in  manifesta- 
tion. I  am  part  of  indivisible  Spirit  in  Spirit.  I  am 
an  individual  manifestation  of  Spirit  in  Spirit.  Even 
as  an  electric  spark  can  say:  "I  am  electricity  in  elec- 
tricity, but  I  am  also  an  individual  manifestation  of 
electricity,"  so  can  I  say :  "I  am  Spirit." 

How  to  To  manifest  any  of  this  latent  wisdom 

Consciously  and  power  consciously,  one  must  be- 
Manifest*  lieve  he  possesses  and  then  try  to  mani- 
fest, even  as  he  tried  when  a  child  his  powers  of  loco- 
motion which  his  parents  taught  him  he  possessed,  and, 
believing,  he  tried  and  found.  Believing  he  can  see, 
expecting  to  see,  or  at  least  hoping  to  see,  one  looks. 
Even  so,  hoping  at  least  to  see  that  which  the  external 
eye  cannot  see,  let  him  who  would  see,  look;  and,  in 
due  time,  he  shall  say  with  the  poet-artist,  William 
Blake :  "I  assert  that  I  do  not  behold -the  outward  crea- 
tion, and  that  it  is  to  me  a  hindrance  and  not  an  action. 
I  question  not  my  corporeal  eye  any  more  than  I  would 
question  a  window  concerning  a  sight.  I  look  through 
it,  and  not  with  it."  And  more ;  such  an  one  shall  see, 
as  John  saw,  the  spiritual  city,  not  "coming  down  from 
heaven,"  but  all  about  him,  in  the  midst  of  which  he 
lives,  as  he  lives  in  this  cruder  city  of  the  senses ;  that 
is,  he  lives  in  the  spiritual,  as  he  lives  in  the  sense  life, 
by  sensation  alone.  He  will  have  learned  to  recognize 
those  finer  sensations  that  come  from  the  more  beautiful 
and  powerful,  because  more  intensified,  vibrations  of 
Spirit. 


32  How  TO  CONTROL  FATE 

The  Coming      His  world  will  not    be    merely    that 
Man*  which  is  seen  and  felt  by  the  ordinary 

dull  man;  it  will  be  that  of  the  refined, 
sensitive  "coming  man"  who  will  "feel"  octaves  of 
vibrations  not  sensed  by  one  who  lives  in  the  octaves 
of  the  senses.  This  finer  universe  will  be  as  real  to  him 
as  the  harmony  that  the  uneducated,  non-musical  ear 
cannot  hear  is  real  to  the  ear  of  the  leader  of  the  or- 
chestra ;  as  real  as  the  sunset,  to  whose  vibrations  the 
eye  of  the  blind  is  not  sensitive,  is  real  to  the  eye  of  the 
artist.  It  is  only  a  question  of  unfolded  sensitiveness 
to  the  unseen,  but  everpresent  vibration  and  the  recog- 
nition of  the  response  born  within  the  Soul. 

Scientifically      All  this  desired  condition  can  be  as 
Attained*  scientifically  developed  and  cultivated 

as  have  been  the  recognition  of  sound 
in  music,  of  light  in  painting,  of  touch  in  blind  and  of 
tact  in  society.  By  devoting  a  little  time  intelligently 
each  day,  less  than  it  takes  to  make  a  musician,  one  may 
become  clairvoyant,  psychometric,  or  inspirational,  and 
thus  grow  to  the  condition  desired  by  Rev.  John  White 
Chadwick,  a  desire  which  is  almost  universal ;  it  is 
beautifully  prayed  for  in  these  words : 

I  might  be  strong  to  turn  my  eyes  away 

To  where  the  eternal  stars  so  plainly  shine — 

Truth,  Beauty,  Good — and  by  that  vision  blest — 
Lifting  my  heart  to  make  its  clearness  mine — 

Taste  then,  earthbound,  the  everlasting  rest. 


INTRODUCTION  TO  PART  II. 

From  the  Philosophy,  we  now  turn  to  the  Principle  of 
Expression.  From  Science  of  Life,  we  turn  to  the  "Art 
of  Living."  From  "Preaching,"  we  turn  to  "Practice," 
remembering  that  he  who  cannot  "preach  better  than 
he  practices"  will  never  unfold.  For  the  Ideal,  which 
is  the  Real  of  the  Soul,  must  necessarily  precede  all  un- 
foldment. 

That  we  live,  is  no  evidence  that  we  are  now  artists. 
That  our  lives  are  not  what  we  desire  is  evidence  that 
we  are  poor  workmen  and  that  we  have  not  learned  to 
be  artisans  even.  We  are  bunglers.  Disease,  failure 
and  unhappiness  are  evidences  of  the  ignorant  and 
bungling  nature  of  our  work.  Since  Life  is  power  and 
Art,  either  useful  or  beautiful,  is  but  the  application  of 
power  under  intelligent  direction,  we  can  make  life  an 
Art  only  by  intelligently  directing  the  one  power  by 
which  Life  is  directed.  That  power  is  Thought.  To 
think  as  we  wish  to  be,  is  to  BE  that,  which  we  wish  to 
be.  Such  thinking  comes  to  him  who  knows  the  origin 
of  his  thought.  He  chooses  only  those  thoughts  which 
cause  health,  happiness  and  prosperity.  Our  thoughts 
are  caused  by  Suggestion.  To  know  what  Suggestion 
to  accept  and  thus  make  into  an  Affirmation  and  what 
Suggestion  to  ignore,  is  to  control  life's  expression — 
is  to  be  Masters  of  Fate. 

This  is  taught  in  Part  II.  It  is  recommended  that  this 
part  be  studied  until  it  becomes  as  familiar  as  the 
alphabet.  The  principles  will  then  be  lived.  The  stu- 
dent will  thus  become  an  adept  in  the  mystery  of  life 
and  an  Artist  in  living. 


PART  n* 


Suggestion:    Its  Place  and  Power* 


Definition*  Suggestion,  in  ordinary  speech,  means 
anything  addressed  to  the  senses,  any- 
thing that  causes  an  idea  in  the  mind.  Thus  each  in- 
dividual thing  in  one's  environment  is,  at  all  times,  a 
Suggestion.  A  Suggestion  is  whatever  from  without 
awakens  a  thought,  whatever  "sets  a  man  to  thinking." 
It  is  thus  an  ever  present  factor  in  life ;  and,  in  this 
respect,  it  is  true  that  "Suggestion  rules  the  world." 
But,  to  rule,  the  Suggestion  must  be  taken  by  the  mind 
as  truth.  It  is  then  converted  into  Auto-Suggestion. 

Auto-  This  is  a  Suggestion  given  by  the  indi- 

Suggestion»  vidual  to  himself ;  it  is  born  of  convic- 
tion of  truth.  Each  individual  is  con- 
trolled by  his  convictions,  that  is,  by  Auto-Suggestion — 
by  his  Affirmations.  In  this  view,  it  is  not  Suggestion 
but  Auto-Suggestion — Affirmation — that  rules  the 
world;  however,  in  common  thought,  this  cause  and 
effect,  Suggestion  and  Affirmation,  are  one.  There- 
fore, it  is  near  enough  in  fact  to  say,  ''Suggestion  rules 
the  world,"  for,  until  man  learns  to  give  himself  Sug- 
gestions independent  of  external  condition,  Suggestion 
is  the  primal  manifestation  of  power.  When  he  reaches 
that  plane  of  development  where  he  is  controlled  by  Af- 
firmation, he  becomes,  through  this  power  of  Affirma- 
tion, the  creator  of  his  own  destiny. 

Technical  But,  while  this  is  the  meaning  of  Sugges- 
Dcfinition,  tion  in  ordinary  speech,  there  is  a  tech- 
nical use  of  the  word.  Suggestion,  as 
used  by  mental  scientists,  suggestionists,  and  hypnot- 
ists, means  an  intelligent  use  of  this  ever  present  power 


THROUGH  SUGGESTION.  35 

with  a  predetermined  purpose  to  create  a  certain  idea 
in  another's  mind.  It  is  intelligent  use  of  Suggestion 
to  cause  a  person  to  think  and  to  act  from  a  chosen 
thought.  Like  all  other  arts,  it  is  the  intelligent  use  of 
power.  The  Art  of  Suggestion  is  the  greatest  of  all 
arts,  and,  as  a  consequence,  is  the  one  most  potent  for 
good. 

Control  of  Civilization  is  but  ideas  materialized. 
Evolution.  Thoughts  control  life.  While  they  are 
not  things,  they  are  power;  thus  they  are 
the  creator  of  things.  The  thought  in  mind  of  warrior, 
statesman,  artist,  becomes  the  victory,  the  state,  the 
statute.  As  thoughts  change,  so  does  all  external  life 
change ;  all  progress,  all  reform,  began  in  the  change  of 
thought  in  some  one  individual.  Heretofore  this  change 
has  been,  as  in  savage  man,  merely  instinctive ;  but,  as 
man,  by  conscious  thought,  has  become  a  factor  in 
changing  the  world  into  better  conditions ;  as  he  has  at 
will  changed  grass  to  wheat,  and  scrub  to  blooded  stock, 
so  is  he  now  becoming  a  conscious  factor  in  his  own 
evolution.  He  is  beginning  to  realize  that  the  only 
power  by  which  he  has  wrought  lias  been  that  of 
Thought.  He  is  learning  that  Thought  is  as  easily  con- 
trolled and  made  to  do  selected  work  as  is  steam  or 
electricity.  He  has  only  to  think  rightly  to  have  what- 
ever he  wishes,  either  in  person  or  in  environment. 

"In  His  Heart/'  "As  a  man  thinketh  in  his  heart,  so 
is  he,"  said  the  ancient  prophet.  The 
key  to  this  Affirmation  is  the  words,  "in  his  heart."  In- 
terpreted, it  reads :  "Profound  convictions  control  the 
life."  In  scientific  terms,  it  is  this:  Man  is  controlled 
by  Affirmation.  Therefore,  to  make  life's  expression 
what  we  wish,  we  are  to  hold  our  wish  as  to  a  reality,  a 
profound  conviction ;  it  will  then  materialize.  Life  is 
as  easily  molded  into  desired  forms  as  is  clay  by  the 
potter.  Clay  takes  the  shape  of  the  thought  in  the 
mind.  The  child's  body  at  birth  is  molded  by  the 


36  How  TO  CONTROL  FATE 

mother's  thought;  he  follows  the  evolution  of  that 
thought  until  he  begins  to  think  for  himself ;  then  he 
begins  to  reshape  his  body ;  and,  somewhat  consciously 
but  to  a  greater  degree  unconsciously,  he  is  doing  this 
every  moment  of  time.  When  he  shall  understand  his 
power,  he  will  shape  body  and  environment,  at  will,  to 
his  desires. 


Disease,  Thus,  by  Suggestion,  man  to-day,  without 
Thought  intention,  builds  his  body  into  disease,  old 
Created*  age,  weakness,  pain  and  death;  builds  his 
•environment  into  poverty  and  squalor, 
His  mental  conditions  of  unhappiness  and  sorrow  have 
materialized.  When  he  shall  never  hold  these  ideas  of 
bodily  decay,  of  pain,  or  poverty,  but,  in  their  stead, 
will  hold  <lin  his  heart"  ideals  of  youth,  health,  vigor 
and  plenty,  there  will  be  to  him  no  more  of  life's  ills. 
He  will  have,  instead,  realization  of  these  beautiful 
ideals. 


Place  of  This  is  the  place  and  the  power  of  Sug- 

Suggestion.  gestion  in  the  New  Thought.  This  Art 
places  in  the  control  of  man  his  fate  by 
teaching  him  how  to  think.  It  demonstrates  that,  by 
right  thinking,  man  may  be  now  that  which  at  times  he 
dreams  of  being — ever  youthful,  healthful,  happy  and 
free  from  care.  This  is  possible  for  all.  The  Art  is 
as  easily  taught  as  is  the  use  of  the  magnet.  Many 
lives  demonstrate  it  now.  Would  you  know  the  law? 
Here  it  is :  Never  think  a  thing  that  yon  do  not  wish  to 
materialize  as  a  fact.  I  will  put  it  in  another  way : 
Suggest  to  yourself  that  that  is  true  which  you  desire 
to  be  true,  ''Believe  and  be  saved,"  was  the  command 
of  Jesus ;  believe  that  to  be  true  which  you  wish  to  be 
true,  and  it  will  manifest  in  your  life  as  truth, 


THROUGH  SUGGESTION.  .      37 

Illustrations.  You  wish  health.  Affirm  Health.  Think 
Health.  Hold  the  picture  of  yourself  in 
health  before  your  mind,  just  as  the  artist  holds  'that 
of  the  statue  he  is  carving  from  the  marble.  Hold  it 
persistently  and  you  will  create  health.  Do  you  wish 
relief  from  poverty?  Hold  the  idea  of  plenty  to  use, 
to  enjoy,  not  to  hoard,  not  to  oppress,  but  to  bless,  and 
it  will  as  surely  come  as  rose  from  bud.  This  is  the 
power  of  the  Christian  Scientist,  the  Divine  Scientist, 
the  Mental  Scientist,  the  Soul  Culturist,  the  Hypnotist, 
the  Suggestionist ;  they  all  use  the  power  of  Suggestion 
and  Affirmation,  each  more  or  less  understandingly. 
It  is  the  power  of  priest,  politician,  street  fakir,  auc- 
tioneer ;  of  teacher,  doctor,  and  reformer.  All  of  these 
use  it  instinctively,  for  it  is  all  the  power  man  has — the 
power  of  Thought. 

Affirmation*  The  technical  word  in  evidence  here  is 
AFFIRMATION.  Affirm  that  which  you 
wish  and  it  will  manifest  in  your  life.  Learn  a  lesson 
from  the  hypnotist.  He  says  to  the  subject :  "You  can- 
not get  up."  He  repeats  it  until  the  subject,  because  he 
accepts  it  as  truth,  cannot  get  up.  He  says :  "You  have 
a  toothache,"  and  repeats  it  until  the  painless  jaw  really 
aches.  So  do  we  say  to  ourselves :  "I  am  sick,  poor, 
old,  unhappy,  weak,  penniless,"  until  we  make  ourselves 
so.  Now  turn  about ;  "repent"  and  affirm  the  opposite. 
Say,  "I  am  rich,  happy,  healthy,"  until  you  find  life 
changing  its  aspects.  It  will  change  when  you  say  this 
from  conviction.  Realize  that  as  Mind  (or  Spirit)  you 
are  now  potentially  all  you  desire.  It  lies  in  you,  wait- 
ing expression.  For  what  one  man  is,  all  men  are.  If 
one  manifests  as  health,  happiness  and  wealth,  all  men 
can.  Let  that  power  which  is  life  in  you  manifest  your 
desire.  By  Affirmation,  direct  the  life-flow  your  way. 

All  is  One  affirmation  contains  all  that  is  necessary  for 

Good*  a  perfect  life.     It  is  this:  ALL  is  GOOD.     This  is 

faith  in  the  Providence  of  the  Universe,  faith  in 

the  intelligence  and  wisdom  of  that  Almighty  Power 


38  How  TO  CONTROL  FATE 

that  out  of  Itself  said,  "Let  there  be  light,"  and  there 
was  light.  The  All- Power  is  good.  All  manifestations 
come  from  It,  therefore  all  are  good.  All  is  Good, 
used  as  an  Affirmation,  becomes  reality — redeems  the 
individual  from  all  ills. 

Power  of  With  this  understanding  of  Suggestion  as 
Choice*  an  ever-present  factor  in  life,  goes  also  the 
understanding  that,  whenever  one  has  at- 
tained power  to  select  Suggestions  and  to  reject  those 
he  does  not  wish,  he  has  attained  the  power  of  con- 
trolling his  thought.  To  control  thought,  is  to  be  the 
Conscious  Creator  of  Destiny! — to  be  the  Master  of 
Fate.  So  great  is  this  fact  that  it  requires  desire,  time 
and  repetition  before  it  can  be  realized  in  the  daily  man- 
ifestations of  life.  Therefore  this  principle  of  Sugges- 
tion is  further  unfolded. 

How  to  Remember,  a  Suggestion  is  whatever  is 
Suggest.  used  intelligently  to  induce  a  desired  mental 
condition  in  another  mind.  An  Affirmation 
is  a  Suggestion  accepted  and  made  Truth.  A  statement 
of  Truth  in  the  indicative  mood,  present  tense,  is  the 
controlling  power  in  the  individual  life.  We  have  here 
a  basis  from  which  to  begin  the  work  of  assuming 
conscious  control  of  life  and  of  molding  its  expression 
to  our  will.  Realizing  that  life  has  heretofore  been  con- 
trolled from  without — that  is,  that  we  have  Affirmed 
because  Suggestions  were  accepted,  that  we  have  not 
heretofore  thought  of  a  choice  in  Suggestions  we  have 
accepted — we  are  ready  to  learn  that  we  can  suggest  to 
ourselves ;  that  Affirmations  arising  from  desire  can  be 
voluntarily  used.  These  Affirmations  will  control  the 
expression  of  life. 

The  Great      All  the  power  of  Suggestion  is  multiplied 

Law*  many  fold  when  it  becomes  Affirmation 

born  from  desire.     The  Master  in  Life 

will  use,  as  the  power  to  control  the  Sub-conscious  in 


THROUGH  SUGGESTION.  39 

its  expression,  Affirmations  born    in    Desire.     THAT 

WHICH    HE   WISHES   TO  BE,   HE   WILL  AFFIRM    THAT   HE 

IS.  This  is  the  Great  Law — the  most  important  law 
man  has  yet  discovered.  By  obeying  this  Law,  he  will 
control  his  life ;  will  make  the  channel  for  "the  current 
that  knows  its  way."  There  is  one  mighty  factor  to  use 
in  this  control :  WILL.  Grapple  to  this  Affirmation — 
I  AM — with  the  WILL.  With  this  grapple,  there  is 
no  failure.  Every  Affirmation  placed  in  charge  of  the 
Will  and  let  alone  will  find  expression,  will  be  realized. 
When  this  is  understood,  when  the  beauty  and  neces- 
sity of  Affirmation  is  seen,  then  the  place  and  purpose 
of  my  monthly  journal — NOW — will  be  appreciated. 
No  matter  what  the  culture,  position,  means  or  external 
condition  may  be,  they  are  valueless  in  the  life  and  are 
enslaving  conditions  until,  by  conscious  Affirmation, 
through  Will,  they  are  used  as  the  means  of  Soul- 
growth — the  means  to  self-mastery. 

Morgan.  J.  Pierpont  Morgan  is  not  master  of  self, 
though  he  is  almost  master  of  all  earth's 
transportation,  for  he  is  liable  to  awaken  any  morning 
ill ;  to  find  himself  paralyzed ;  to  become  demented ;  to 
find  fire,  flood,  famine  or  war  has  reduced  him  to  beg- 
gary. He  can  die  by  disease,  bullet  or  starvation.  The 
poorest  tramp  may  outlive  him,  may  be  happier  and 
may  die  richer.  He  has  not  conquered  Fate,  and  will 
not  until  he  realizes  that  all  these  things,  the  insignia  of 
earthly  power,  are  of  no  value  to  the  Soul,  which  has 
power  to  create,  to  call  at  will  all  it  needs ;  until  he  has 
passed  beyond  the  necessity  of  disease  and  sorrow  and 
even  holds  death  at  bay ;  and  until  he  has  learned  that 
he  can,  at  will,  change  these  manifestations  of  crude 
vibrations  of  flesh  for  the  finer  ones  of  Spirit. 

The  Law     And  yet  Truth  is  so  simple,  the  Mastery 

of  Life,         so  easily  acquired.     A  child  may  learn  it. 

It  is  laid  down  in  this  simple  Law  of  Life : 

Affirm  that  which  you  desire  to  be  as  a  present  reality. 


40  How  TO  CONTROL  FATE 

Live  as  if  it  were  already  manifest  and  you  shall  find  it 
manifest.  I  must  repeat  here  that  Truth  Affirmed  is 
the  controller  of  life.  Affirmations  are  the  within  side 
of  Truth.  No  perception  of  Truth  ever  meant  so  much 
for  mankind  as  this  LAW.  It  means  that  all  man  ever 
dreamed  is  within  his  reach.  He  has  to  take  it  by  Af- 
firmation only.  The  line  of  evolution  in  man  is  toward 
Self-Control — Conscious  direction  of  the  manifesta- 
tions of  life.  The  animal  is  fast  being  outgrown,  and 
MAN  is  coming  into  expression. 

From  Within  Controlled  in  some  form,  life  must  be. 
Of  "Without.  If  not  from  Within,  then  from  With- 
out. The  question  I  now  place  before 
you  is  this :  Which  shall  it  be  ?  Will  you  be  Self-Con- 
trolled or  be  the  tool,  the  play,  the  slave  of  circum- 
stances? To  control  railroads,  telegraphs,  labor,  cap- 
ital, armies,  is  to  control  the  Without.  It  is  not  to  con- 
trol SELF.  The  person  who  controls  these  is  himself 
controlled  by  them ;  is  the  slave  of  circumstances.  The 
Without-Law  of  Suggestion  is  Absolute  in  sway  where 
the  Within-Law  of  Affirmation  is  not  invoked  intelli- 
gently and  consciously.  No  matter  what  or  where  we 
are,  we  act  under  Thought.  As  long  as  we  obey  with- 
out choice  Thought  born  of  Suggestion,  we  are  slaves 
of  the  Without.  When  that  Thought  is  self-chosen, 
then  God  has  assumed  the  throne  in  His  Kingdom,  the 
Within,  and  His  edicts  are  Affirmations.  Absolutely  he 
reigns.  His  edicts  are  never  disobeyed.  They  are  in- 
stantly executed.  "God  said,  'Let  there  be  light,'  and 
there  WAS  light."  No  time  between  command  and  ex- 
ecution— no  time  between  cause  and  effect. 

Man  is  This  development  reached,  MAN  has 
Coming*  come;  the  HUMAN  is  here;  the  animal, 
the  instinctive,  the  automatic,  has  died  out. 
MAN  is  here  and  all  things  are  subject  to  him.  This 
power  of  choice  in  Suggestion  is  the  dividing  line  be- 
tween man  and  brute.  As  soon  as  an  individual  makes 


THROUGH  SUGGESTION.  41 

a  conscious  choice,  he  has  crossed  the  dividing  line  and 
is  on  the  road  to  manhood.  When  that  power  of  choice 
has  developed  so  that  he  chooses  every  expression  of 
his  life  and  all  circumstances  obey  his  will,  then,  and  not 
till  then,  has  he  arrived  at  MAN'S  estate.  MAN  is 
coming.  MAN  IS  HERE,  whenever  one  realizes  his 
power  to  choose,  his  power  to  BE ! 

Teacher's  The  whole  duty  of  the  teacher  in  all  de- 
Duty*  partments  is  to  direct,  by  Suggestion,  the 
thought  of  his  pupil.  This  control  may  be 
early  won  in  life.  Suggestion  does  not  determine  char- 
acter, but,  through  Suggestion,  character  may  be  de- 
veloped and  molded  into  Selfhood.  A  Suggestion  once 
accepted  becomes  an  Affirmation.  The  individual  then 
manifests,  not  as  any  person  or  persons  may  desire,  but 
according  to  his  inherent  character.  As  all  force  acts 
in  accordance  to  the  instrument  within  which  it  is  con- 
fined, so  thought,  being  force,  will  act  according  to  the 
instrumentality  through  which  it  manifests.  Character 
is,  in  Suggestion,  a  permanent  factor,  changing  only  as 
the  unfolding  Soul — the  I  Am — shall  change  it.  To 
illustrate :  While  this  essay  was  in  progress,  a  friend 
invited  me  to  attend  the  theater.  I  had  not  thought  of 
going,  was  not  conscious  of  any  desire  to  go.  But  the 
Suggestion  aroused  the  desire.  I  consented  and  went. 
The  power  of  Suggestion  ceased  when  I  said,  "Yes." 
I  went  in  my  thought,  acted  in  my  way  and  enjoyed  in 
my  way.  My  individuality  determined  how  the  Sug- 
gestion should  affect  me  after  I  had  exercised  my  choice 
and  said,  "Yes." 

To  You  So  is  it  in  all  affairs  of  life.    To  excuse 

the  Victory*  one  for  doing  anything  because  he  or  she 
was  influenced  by  another,  is  to  under- 
mine Selfhood  by  destroying  personal  responsibility. 
To  attain  Mastery,  or  to  assist  another  so  to  attain, 
insist  at  all  times  upon  personal  responsibility  for  con- 
duct. All  persons  have  the  power  to  choose,  and,  by 


42  How  TO  CONTROL  FATE 

choice,  they  DO  control  their  life.  Now  let  each  bear 
the  effects  of  that  choice  and,  by  experience,  learn  to 
choose  wisely.  Never  affirm  that  you  are  not  responsi- 
ble, would  you  achieve  success  in  any  undertaking.  To 
you  alone  belongs  the  victory.  Defeat  is  impossible, 
for  all  experience  is  victory.  Wisdom  is  the  guerdon 
of  all  struggle.  Thus  is  the  knowledge  of  Suggestion 
and  Affirmation  the  knowledge  above  all  other  knowl- 
edge. It  is  the  wisdom  that  makes  all  other  knowledge 
of  use.  It  is  the  only  real,  practical  knowledge.  It  is 
the  wisdom  of  wise  choice  and  action. 

Power  of  A  graduate  from  one  of  our  first  uni- 
this  Book*  versities  and  now  a  teacher  in  a  Normal 
Schools,  after  passing  through  my 
classes,  said :  "You  have  made  all  my  other  knowledge 
available."  A  physician  said :  "You  have  only  made  of 
practical  value  that  which  I  knew  beforehand,  but  I 
had  never  formulated  the  common  experiences  into 
Law."  This  little  book  will  do  all  this  for  you  if  you 
will  let  it.  How?  Assimilate  it  mentally  as  you  have 
yesterday's  food.  Make  it  a  part  of  your  mental  con- 
stitution^ AFFIRM  ITS  TRUTH. 

Praise,  Etc.  No  Suggestion  acts  against  one's  desire 
and  will.  One  which  awakens  opposition 
produces  an  effect  opposite  to  that  desired.  Instinc- 
tively understanding  this  and  acting  upon  the  principle 
that  each  one  is  ready  to  be  helped  the  way  he  desires 
to  go,  that  each  one  is  willing  to  accept  happiness  and 
success,  the  world  has  found  praise,  adulation,  flattery, 
insignia,  social  distinctions,  to  be  Power.  The  wise 
man  will  use  all  Power,  and  to  understand  Power  and 
how  to  use  it  as  Suggestion,  is  to  win  success. 

Fear.      Suggestions  born  of  duty,  necessity  and  fear, 
control  most  lives.     When  one  becomes  un- 
folded, Love  will  give  all  the  Suggestions.     "Love  is 
the  fulfillment  of  the  law."     Fear  is  the  "Father  of 


THROUGH  SUGGESTION.  43 

Lies,"  of  all  ills  and  evils.  "From  all  Fear,  Good  Lord, 
deliver  us,"  should  be  in  the  Litany.  To  be  free  from 
Suggestions  born  of  fear,  is  to  be  free  from  illness,  fail- 
ure, poverty  and  sorrow.  These  Suggestions  should  be 
ignored  and  the  opposite  ones  immediately  affirmed. 
Hold  these  last  till  they  are  the  constant  mental  atti- 
tude, then  no  more  Fear.  Affirm,  I  AM  FEARLESS ! 

No  Power  There  is  no  power  Without  to  harm.  All 
to  Harm*  power  is  lodged  Within,  where  God's 
kingdom  IS.  Whatever  is  not  in  har- 
mony with  Truth  is  non-existent,  hence  has  no  power. 
Truth  at  all  times  is  Power  and  is  entirely  GOOD. 
Therefore  "Fear  no  evil."  Lies  and  slanders  have  no 
power ;  for  they  are  devoid  of  Truth.  Pay  no  attention 
to  them.  To  attend  to  them  even  by  so  much  as  a 
thought  or  wish,  is  to  put  power  into  them.  The  harm 
comes  from  Within,  not  from  the  lie.  Soon  you  will 
come  to  see  that  no  one  has  power  to  harm  you  but 
yourself.  A  lie  harms  the  teller.  So  is  it  with  all  the 
evil  we  would  do  to  another.  In  settling  with  a  business 
man  recently,  he  remarked:  "Since  you  have  kept  no 
account,  are  you  not  afraid  that  I  have  cheated  you  ?" 
"You  cannot/'  was  my  reply.  "You  can  only  cheat 
yourself.  Every  dollar  that  you  take  dishonestly  will 
reduce  your  power  in  business,  destroy  your  happi- 
ness and  injure  your  health.  You  cannot  take  a  cent 
from  me,  for  my  Supply  is  Infinite.  The  Lord  IS  my 
shepherd.  I  DO  NOT  WANT."  "Well,  I  wish  every 
one  dealt  so,  it  would  be  a  better  world,"  was  his  re- 
mark. "The  world  is  all  Good  to  me  now,"  I  replied 
as  I  walked  out  of  the  door.  Take  this  lesson !  Live 
it !  Then  ALL  is  GOOD  to  you. 

Power  of  Here  again  you  have  the  secret  of 

"Scientists,"  Etc*      all  the  works  of  "Christian,"  "Di- 
vine,"  "Mental"   and   other   "Sci- 
entists," "Metaphysicians,"  "Faith  Healers,"  "Prayer 
Cures,"  etc.,  etc.    The  Power  is  exactly  that  which  the 


44  How  TO  CONTROL  FATE 

hypnotist  and  the  practitioner  of  "Suggestive  Thera- 
peutics" use.  No  matter  if  this  be  denied,  he  who  has 
studied  Suggestion  knows  that  T.  J.  Shelton,  Mrs. 
Helen  Wilmans,  Mrs.  Eddy  and  all  the  rest  use  Sugges- 
tion. Not  to  use  it,  they  must  become  non-existent. 
What  other  subtle  forces  there  may  be — and  I  think 
they  are  infinite  as  are  the  possible  number  of  vibra- 
tions— yet  the  director  of  these  forces  is  Suggestion. 
But  for  this  power  of  Suggestion,  they  \vould  never 
have  a  patient.  Each  paper,  book  or  letter  sent  out  by 
any  Scientist  is  a  Suggestion,  and,  as  irrigating  ditch 
carries  water,  so  does  the  Suggestion  carry  the  power 
these  healers  wield.  The  mistake  is,  that  one  claims  All, 
and  another  All,  when  ALL  have  ALL.  All  work  by 
the  ALL-Power. 


One  Power      As  Life  is  ONE,  there  can  be  but  ONE 
to  Heal*  healing  Power,  and  that  is  Life  itself. 

No  person  ever  healed  another.  Healers 
have  used  Suggestion  and  will  more  intelligently  use 
it.  Acceptance  of  the  Suggestion — the  Affirmation — 
does  the  healing.  The  Suggestion  may  be  conveyed  in 
a  thousand  ways.  Look,  attitude,  speech,  anything  ad- 
dressed to  the  Ego  through  any  of  the  five  senses,  or 
through  any  possible  channel,  is  a  Suggestion.  Hence 
Telepathy  is  a  most  potent  channel,  because  it  arouses 
no  opposition  in  the  conscious  life.  Telepathy  is  the 
Power  in  absent  treatments.  Whoever  has  learned 
Concentration  can  do  all  Mrs.  Eddy  or  Mrs.  Wilmans 
does.  It  is  the  common  heritage  of  man. 

Cannon  and      As  chamber  of  cannon  to  powder,  so 
Powder.  is  Suggestion  to  all  Soul  forces.    It  is 

the  Conscious  will  of  Man  directing 
the  expression  of  the  Sub-Conscious  life.  It  is  Mastery ! 
Remember: — To  thus  direct,  to  thus  realize  that  the 
Divine  power  in  you  is  subject  to  your  Thought,  is  to 
attain  the  pinnacle  of  knowledge  and  have  the  All  at 


THROUGH  SUGGESTION.  45 

your  command.  It  is  to  be  a  Special  Creator  under  the 
Absolute  Law  of  Creation.  We  thus  create  our 
environment — Create  ourselves.  We  become  that 
which  we  wish  to  be.  The  road  is  through  Affirma- 
tion. To  control  life,  understand  and  control  Sugges- 
tion and  the  results  are  those  you  have  desired  and 
chosen.  This  is  to  be  your  Affirmation  daily  :  "I  choose 
my  life.  I  affirm  Truth.  Truth  affirmed  molds  my 
body  and  environment  to  my  desire,  as  potter  molds 
clay.  I  make  my  life  to  my  choice.  I  am  creator."  By 
thus  affirming,  you  have  become  "Conscious  Law"  and 
"King  of  Kings." 

Millenium  Knowing  the  power  of  Suggestion,  its  in- 
Here,  telligent  use,  we  who  have  studied  and 

practiced  it  see  in  it  the  fulfillment  of  the 
prophecy  and  expectation  of  the  millenium.  It  is  here 
now  in  every  heart  that  affirms,  ALL  is  GOOD. 

Fear*  Fear  being  the  cause  of  all  ills,  failures  and  un- 
happiness,  it  is  the  first  condition  to  be  out- 
grown. To  outgrow  fear,  learn  how  to  Affirm 
Fearlessness.  Let  the  thought  used  be  this  in  any  form 
of  words  you  may  choose  to  put  it :  "I  am  fearless.  I 
dare  to  do  anything  I  desire."  Whenever  anything 
comes  to  cause  a  thought  of  fear,  make  this  affirmation. 
Then  do  in  mind  that  which  you  fear  and  act  it  in  the 
external  when  it  is  possible.  Conquer  fear  by  Affirma- 
tion and  prove  you  have  conquered  by  doing  the  thing 
feared.  There  is  not  an  Affirmation  that  brings  health 
and  happiness  sooner  than  this : — I  AM  FEARLESS  ! 

Health*  For  health,  do  not  recognize  disease  in  your 
thought.  To  think  upon  disease,  to  brood 
upon  it,  is  to  invite  it — is  to  suggest  it  upon  yourself. 
Therefore,  think  only  of  Health.  Ignore  disease  in 
thought ;  think  health.  Let  the  Affirmation  be  some- 
thing like  this : 


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How  TO  CONTROL  FATE 


"I  am  Life.  I  am  Spirit.  I  am  Mind.  As  Life,  I  can- 
not know  sickness.  As  Life,  I  am  at  all  times  well.  As 
Spirit,  I  am  well.  Spirit  cannot  be  sick.  I  am  a  perfect 
manifestation  of  Spirit.  Perfection  is  health,  peace  and 
joy.  As  Mind,  I  am  ever  in  perfect  health.  As  Mind, 
I  cannot  be  ill.  I  affirm  myself  Mind.  I  live  as  Mind 
above  all  death,  pain,  disease,  decay,  sorrow,  failure 
and  unrest.  I  am  Soul.  Soul  is  a  perfect  manifestation 
of  God.  God  cannot  know  sickness  or  pain.  I  am 
ONE  with  God.  I  am  well.  I  am  not  separate  from 
Him.  I  live  and  move  in  this  thought  of  Unity  and 
manifest  each  day  my  oneness  in  health.  I  am  Health ! 
I  am  Peace !  I  am  Joy !"  Make  these  Affirmations 
and  forget  that  you  have  made  them  by  living  them. 
Be,  in  expression,  that  which  you  Affirm.  Life  flows 
as  naturally  and  as  harmoniously  as  sunlight.  Affirm ! 
Forget !  and  let  it  flow. 


Prosperity.  Affirm  Success  in  all  your  undertakings. 
No  matter  what  discouragements  come, 
affirm  Success.  Declare  yourself  Prosperous.  Let  no 
thought  of  discouragement  come  into  your  mind.  Af- 
firm :  "All  is  Mine.  From  the  ALL  each  day  comes 
to  me  that  which  I  need." 


Affirm  this  and  forget  the  necessity  of  affirming.  In 
the  Affirmation,  you  have  sent  a  message  to  the  only 
Power  that  can  bring  success  to  the  sub-conscious,  the 
Ego — and  when  you  LET,  the  Ego  will  bring  Success. 
Think  Success,  act  as  if  you  were  Success,  and  you  are 
Success.  Failures  come  because,  when  we  are  tried, 
we  fail  to  cling  to  the  Ideal  of  Success.  Hold  to  your 
Ideal  of  Success  the  tighter  when  seeming  failure 
comes.  Affirm  Success  under  all  trials  and  discourage- 
ments and  success  is  as  surely  yours  as  the  mist  is,  be- 
cause of  the  persistent  drawings  of  the  sun, 


SUPPLEMENT  TO  THIS  FIFTH  EDITION. 


To  My  Readers^  Greeting: 

Owing  to  the  condensation  of  the  matter  in  this  edi- 
tion, the  type  being  set  "solid,"  rather  than  "leaded," 
as  in  previous  editions,  we  have  the  same  amount  of 
reading  matter  in  less  space.  I  am  asked  by  the 
manager  of  "Now"  Folk  to  fill  this  space  with  a 
word  to  the  reader  concerning  the  book  and  our 
growth  since  its  first  appearance. 
This  book  is  my  first.  We  called  it  "My  baby"  for  a 
year.  It  has  sold,  to  our  surprise,  and  taken  my 
name  all  around  the  world.  It  has  received  praise 
and  commendation  wherever  the  English  language 
is  read.  From  none  have  I  received  finer  apprecia- 
tion than  from  several  Hindu  Swamis.  An  Arab 
teacher  of  occultism  when  reading  it  at  the  request 
of  O  Hasnu  Hara,  editor  of  "The  English  Magazine 
of  Mysteries,"  replied  when  she  asked  his  opinion 
of  it:  "That  man  knows!"  To  be  tried  by  a  jury  of 
his  peers  is  the  desire  of  every  author.  I  know  by 
the  only  test  possible  the  truth  of  that  which  I  have 
here  written.  It  is  the  test  which  I  have  recommend- 
ed you  in  this  book  to  use,  i.  e.,  DEMONSTRA- 
TION. "Learn  to  do  by  doing,"  is  the  only  true 
method  of  education.  I  have  demonstrated  the 
thought  of  this  book  to  be  TRUTH  by  living  it. 
It  is  not  possible  to  estimate  how  much  this  book 
has  done  to  awaken  an  interest  in  Suggestion.  But 
I  know  by  many  letters  that  it  has  been  a  factor  in 
the  world's  evolution  along  the  line  awakening  the 
consciousness  of  the  Human  Soul  to  a  realization  of 
itself  as  a  manifestation  of  Omnipotence.  It  has 
brought  many  to  a  rational  understanding  of  an  in- 
telligent application  of  this  most  important  Law  of 


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Life,  which  is  also  the  only  Law  of  human  control 
— The  Law  of  Suggestion. 

When  this  book  was  first  published  there  was  far 
more  confusion  in  the  thought  of  Suggestion,  even 
among  teachers,  than  at  present.  The  subject  was 
shunned  even  by  New  Thought  teachers  generally, 
and  was  much  muddled  in  the  teaching  of  many  and 
feared  by  others.  Now  it  is  a  common  word,  well 
understood  by  all  leading  exponents  of  the  various 
cults. 

My  magazine,  then  in  its  2d  Volume,  was  fearless  in 
its  annunciation  of  this  Law,  on  its  positive  side 
known  as  Affirmation.  Instructions  and  formulas 
for  denials  were  then  common.  Now  they  are  the 
exception.  The  Law  of  Suggestion  is  now  so  well 
understood  that  few  teachers  advocate  negative 
propositions.  Affirmation  is  Auto-Suggestion,  and 
whatever  I  suggest,  to  myself,  that  I  am. 
Students  are  coming  to  understand  that  this  Law  of 
Suggestion  lies  at  the  base  of  occultism,  both  an- 
cient and  modern.  It  underlies  Spiritualism  and 
what  are  termed  Suggestive  Therapeutics  and  Mag- 
netic healing;  it  is  the  life  there  is  in  Osteopathy, 
"Christian,"  "Divine"  and  "Mental"  Science,  and  in 
the  various  systems  of  health  treatments  now  at- 
tracting attention.  Could  suggestion  be  removed 
from  any  system  of  theology  or  medicine,  it  would 
fail.  Authors  upon  reform  and  even  those  writing 
upon  business  success,  are  realizing  the  value  of  a 
knowledge  of  Suggestion. 

For  these  reasons  this  little  book  fills  a  place  among 
the  more  pretentious  ones,  since  it  brings  the  Law 
home  to  the  individual ;  teaching  him  through  its 
conscious  and  intelligent  use  how  to  control  his  fate 
and  make  his  destiny  to  his  will. 
My  co-laborers  and  myself  are  fast  learning  to  direct 
our  lives  by  Affirmation.  We  are  realizing  our 
power  through  Mental  Pictures,  through  the  Ideal, 
to  direct  our  life.  We  are  learning  when  we  have 


THROUGH  SUGGESTION.  49 

made  these  pictures,  to  hold  to  them,  and  LET  the 
Universal  Life  materialize  them.  We  can  build 
through  Affirmation  only.  He  who  so  consciously 
builds,  builds  to  his  will.  This  fact  is  one  this  book 
forces  upon  the  consciousness  of  its  readers.  So  many 
write  me:  "You  have  taught  me  that  I  can."  I 
would,  therefore,  have  this  thought  go  with  you  as 
you  lay  it  down :  I  have  power  to  mould  my  life  to 
my  will.  I  mould  it  through  the  Law  of  Suggestion. 
I  affirm  and  become  that  which  I  affirm. 
\Vhen  this  book  was  written  I  had  but  recently  be- 
gun my  work  in  San  Francisco,  not  dreaming  what 
its  evolution  has  been,  and  I  was  wholly  unac- 
quainted with  the  work  of  authorship  and  of  pub- 
lishing. I  had  obeyed  the  promptings  of  my  Soul, 
my  intuitions  in  settling  here ;  I  had  obeyed  them  in 
writing  and  later  in  printing  the  book.  Unexpected 
assistance  opened  the  way  to  is  publication.  I  start- 
ed my  magazine  through  the  same  faith,  in  Truth 
as  I  heard  it  in  the  inner  consciousness.  Two  young 
men  had  joined  me  and  with  the  publication  of  this 
we  formed  the  nucleus  of  what  has  grown  to  be 
"NOW"  Folk.  We  are  now  an  incorporated  com- 
pany with  a  fair  prospect  of  seeing  my  Mental  Pic- 
ture materialize : — my  Ideal  Mountain  Home  found- 
ed with  hotel,  sanitarium,  schools,  printing  plant 
and  various  industries  where  mutual  lovers  work 
for  mutual  good,  in  love  of  their  work.  This  Ideal 
is  materializing.  I  have  held  it  as  a  reality  for  ten 
years;  as  a  dream  for  twenty-five  years.  It  comes 
now  in  accordance  with  the  Law  of  Expression, 
which  is  the  Law  by  which  all  Ideals  materialize. 
Ideals  find  objective  expression  according  to  the 
fidelity  with  which  they  are  held  as  present  realities. 
"According  to  thy  faith"  is  not  limited  to  improving 
bodily  conditions,  but  covers  the  whole  range  of 
human  experience ;  war  and  peace,  business  and 
home,  love  and  duty,  politics  and  religion,  marriage 


50  How  TO  CONTROL  FATE 

and  divorce,  birth  and  death,  are  all  controlled  by 
this  Law  of  Ideal  Suggestion — That  which  I  think, 
that  I  am! 

Realizing  this  power  of  Thought,  I  had  written  be- 
fore this  book,  the  articles  now  composing  "Man's 
Greatest  Discovery"  which  I  consider  my  most  im- 
portant book  thus  far,  as  it  deals  with  the  Power 
and  the  Principle  of  Individual  Life.  Upon  this  fact 
THOUGHT  IS  POWER. . .  .all  future  science,  phi- 
losophy and  art  will  be  based.  From  the  knowledge 
of  this  fact  all  my  works  have  originated  and  upon  it 
all  my  instruction  is  based. 

Through  faith  in  our  power,  through  right  thinking, 
to  create,  are  the  plans  of  "NOW"  Folk  materializ- 
ing. Thought  will  hereafter  build  that  Home,  Sani- 
tarium and  Schools,  and  whatever  else  we  desire  be- 
cause we  affirm  I  have  power  to  build  my  life  to  my 
desire.  Daily  are  we  learning  where  that  power 
lies ;  daily  learning  how  to  direct  it.  But  it  is  not 
our  thought  alone  that  will  do  this;  we  are  rein- 
forced by  every  thought  our  readers  send  us,  be  it 
for  or  against  us,  it  makes  no  difference.  The  wind- 
mill uses  every  breeze,  no  matter  from  whence  it 
comes.  All  power  manifests  in  accordance  with  the 
instrument  it  uses.  So  Thought,  being  Power,  when 
it  comes  to  us  from  without,  is  used  by  our  Mental 
attitude,  and  since  we  hold  to  nothing  but  Good,  all 
power  must  manifest  goodness  for  us.  Therefore, 
all  who  think  of  us  help  us  in  any  way  in  our  work 
for  Truth  through  Love  of  Truth. 
Realizing  the  power  of  Thought  to  control  external 
conditions,  and  the  power  of  Suggestion  to  over- 
come conditions,  I  wrote  my  "Dollars  want  me,"  a 
brochure  as  revolutionary  in  its  thought  as  in  its 
title.  "I  want  dollars"  is  the  ordinary  cry.  "I 
want!"  is  humanity's  cry,  instead  of  being,  as  it 
should  be,  "I  POSSESS!"  Affirming  possession, 
we  enter  into  the  realization  of  possession.  With- 
out ,this  realization  we  may  be  poor  with  millions  in 


THROUGH  SUGGESTION.  51 

our  hands.  "He  is  poor  who  thinks  himself  poor !" 
says  Emerson.  I  can  imagine  no  greater  good  I 
can  do  my  fellows  than  to  enable  them  to  replace 
poverty  thoughts  and  pictures  with  those  of  opu- 
lence. I  wrote  for  this  I  say  in  my  "Introduction" 
"To  help  you  to  rise  above  the  drudgery  of  enforced 
labor !"  I  believe  in  freedom  and  in  free  men.  Ne- 
cessity is  as  much  a  Master  as  the  slave-driver  with 
a  whip.  I  have  the  consciousness  of  knowing  that 
the  mere  Suggestion  "Dollars  want  me!"  has 
changed  the  conditions  of  hundreds  of  its  readers. 
I  would  like  this  little  book  to  be  scattered  as  a  tract, 
for  there  could  be  no  more  effective  arbitrator  be- 
tween capital  and  labor ;  no  more  humanizer  for  the 
selfish  and  idle ;  no  more  stimulating  thought  to  the 
weary  rich,  than  is  the  thought  it  bears :  Wealth  is 
for  enjoyment  through  use. 

"How  to  Control  Fate"  soon  after  its  publication 
called  forth  my  "Not  Hypnotism  but  Suggestion," 
than  which  no  book  is  more  needed  today  by  the 
masses.  It  is  becoming  common  for  the  idle,  the 
foolish,  the  weak  and  the  vicious  to  use  "Hypno- 
tism" as  a  scapegoat,  and  to  excuse  themselves  by 
saying :  "I  was  hypnotised !"  when  every  expert  in 
Suggestion  knows  that  character  determines  the 
reception  or  rejection  of  a  Suggestion ;  that  where 
it  is  used  as  an  excuse  it  is  a  case  of  lack  of  self  re- 
liance, a  case  always  of  self-hypnotism.  No  greater 
evil  is  possible  than  that  teaching  which  lessens  per- 
sonal responsibility  for  conduct.  The  weak  and 
vicious  are  ever  seeking  an  excuse  for  that  which 
they  alone  are  responsible.  Because  of  this,  theories 
of  predestination,  heredity,  karma,  circumstance,  in- 
fluence, spirits,  devil,  or  hypnotism  are  created  and 
used  as  an  excuse.  Excuse  is  one  of  the  most  poi- 
sonous of  thoughts,  for  it  undermines  character, 
weakens  the  powers  of  resistance,  lessens  faith  in 
self  and  inculcates  a  belief  in  what  is  worse  than 
ancient  demonism  by  locating  power  in  things  out- 


52  How  TO  CONTROL  FATE 

side  the  Soul.  There  is  but  one  sure  foundation  for 
individual  and  for  national  integrity,  but  one  sure 
foundation  for  character,  and  that  is  SELF  RELI- 
ANCE. Self-reliance  must  find  its  rise  in  Self 
Knowledge  and  Self  Respect.  For  this  reason  I  feel 
that  I  am  in  my  work  practicalizing  America's 
greatest  essay. .  .Emerson's  "Self-Reliance."  All 
my  writings  are  pitched  to  the  one  keynote.. BE 
THYSELF! 

The  object  of  this  book,  and  all  my  books,  maga- 
zines and  lessons  is  to  assist  others  in  finding  them- 
selves, for  each  is  Power  to  overcome  all  conditions 
and  circumstances,  and  the  Power  with  each  is  di- 
rected in  the  Will.  This  Will  is  trained  and  directed 
only  through  faith  in  self.  "I  Can  is  the  Affirmation 
of  Character,  Health  and  Happiness.  Self  assertion 
its  one  name. 

Through  the  success  of  these  books  I  became  aware 
of  the  world-wide  interest  now  manifested  in  New 
Thought,  and  felt  that  this  stream  needed  guiding 
and  clarifying.  Therefore  I  wrote  my  "New 
Thought  Primer;  Origin,  History  and  Principles  of 
the  Movement."  This  book  is  also  a  child  of  "How 
to  Control  Fate,"  for  my  purpose  was,  as  much  as 
anything,  to  bring  to  the  intelligent  the  thought  this 
movement  was  also  Evolution,  and  that  human  un- 
foldment  had  ever  been  controlled  by  the  Law  of 
Suggestion. 

There  is  no  creation.  Progress  is  but  the  coming 
into  expression  of  that  which  eternally  has  been. 
New  movements  arise  in  a  conception  which  is  but 
an  extension  of  a  previous  conception,  and  that  of  a 
previous  conception,  and  so  on  back  to  primitive 
man,  of  a  divine,  infinite  and  eternal  idea,  which 
finds  expression  through  human  ideals.  These  ideals 
become  incorporated  into  institutions,  and  a  civiliz- 
tion  which  later  ideals  modify.  Thus  external  con- 
ditions are  but  the  materialization  of  Thoughts  born 


THROUGH  SUGGESTION.  53 

in  Suggestions.  So  arose  New  Thought.  From 
previous  glimpses  of  Truth  we  have  now  grown  to 
a  larger  vision. 

In  like  manner  came  the  philosophy  and  the  art  of 
Suggestion.  It  began  in  Mesmerism,  came  up 
through  "Animal  Magnetism"  and  other  forms  of 
using  Thought  consciously,  to  control  conduct,  un- 
til the  discovery  was  made  that  Thought  was  the 
only  power  used,  and  that  it  was  one's  own  thought 
within  himself  that  did  the  work  in  him. 
Suggestion  lies  solely  in  the  individual's  power  to 
think  and  power  to  choose  what  to  think.  From  its 
conscious  use  in  controlling  conduct  and  curing  bod- 
ily infirmities  we  have  learned  that  it  is  equally 
powerful  in  changing  material  conditions  and  in 
creating  environment  to  desire. 

Thus  my  six  books  have  arisen.  They  are  the  evolu- 
tion of  the  one  idea :  Thought  is  Power  and  can  be 
intelligently  directed  to  the  creation  of  one's  own 
self  and  environment. 

Had  this  first  book.  ."My  Baby",  .not  been  re- 
ceived, the  rest  would  not  have  been.  This  opened 
the  way  for  these  others  and  those  which  are  yet  to 
follow.  In  its  effect  upon  author  and  publishers  it 
demonstrated  the  truth  of  the  principle  it  taught.  It 
has  been  also  a  material  help  in  carrying  on  our 
work,  for  it  used  to  come  to  us  that  they  might  as- 
sist in  the  work. 

The  theme  is  not  exhausted.  In  dealing  with 
Thought  we  are  dealing  with  the  mightiest  Power 
subject  to  Human  control.  In  dealing  with  the  Soul 
we  are  dealing  with  Infinity  and  Eternity.  The 
growing  consciousness  of  Power  will  be  an  eternal 
unfoldment.  The  evolution  of  an  idea  is  endless. 
Every  day  a  new  book  is  needed  to  record  the  in- 
creased perception  of  this  idea  of  Thought  as 
Power.  I  have  many  new  ones  as  ideals  in  my  mind 
and  I  will  print  them  as  soon  as  they  can  materialize. 
I  propose  to  write  twenty»five  pamphlets  like  this. 


54  How  TO  CONTROL  FATE 

Thus  there  are  twenty  more  to  come.  These  written 
I  then  propose  to  write  several  large  volumes,  un- 
folding a  system  of  "NOW"  Philosophy.  It  is  for 
this  reason  that  I  desire  the  Home  I  mentioned 
above  to  materialize.  This  will  give  the  leisure,  the 
opportunity  and  the  means  that  I  need.  What  I  will 
call  the  system  I  am  as  much  at  a  loss  now  to  know 
as  was  Herbert  Spencer  for  years  concerning  his 
own.  But  the  name  will  come,  the  means  will  come 
and  at  the  right  time  the  books  will  materialize.  We 
control  Fate  through  Suggestion  made  as  these  are 
in  faith  in  Principle,  faith  in  Self.  I  know  all  who 
read  this  book  wish  me  to  see  them  materialize. 
Your  thought  will  be  an  added  power  to  help. 
Means  are  to  come  for  the  preparatory  work  of  pam- 
phlet printing,  which  is  but  an  introduction  to  the 
greater  work. 

I  am  just  entering  the  productive  period  of  my  life. 
I  write  this  on  my  sixty-fifth  birthday.  Was  never 
so  well  in  body,  so  clear  in  mind  or  so  in  love  with, 
or  so  enthusiastic  in,  my  work  as  now.  I  never  listen 
to  a  Suggestion  of  Age,  weariness  or  relief.  I  am  in 
embryo  all  nowr  that  I  wish  to  be.  As  bud  unfolds 
into  bloom,  so  will  you  and  I  unfold  only  that  which 
we  now  are.  Suggestion  to  this  effect  creates  a 
mental  condition  which  makes  it  easy  for  the  germs 
within  to  come  into  expression.  Therefore  now 
affirm  with  me : — I  am  ALL  now,  I  desire  to  be  and 
I  have  power  to  bring  that  which  I  am  into  mani- 
festation. For  this  reason  that  Philosophy  which  I 
am  will  write  itself  at  the  right  time.  This  little 
book  is  the  first  chapter. 

It  seems  proper  for  me  thus  to  take  you,  my  reader, 
into  my  confidence  since  this  little  book  that  intro- 
duced me  to  the  world  starts  out  on  its  new  edition. 
I  desired  to  tell  you  how  successfully  the  Law  has 
worked  in  my  case  since  November,  1901,  when  it 
started  on  its  mission.  Ten  thousand  copies  have 


THROUGH  SUGGESTION.  55 

been  disposed  of,  and  each  one  has  carried  its  mes- 
sage— BE  THYSELF !  They  have  won  for  me  the 
love  of  thousands  whose  words  of  cheer  I  can  only 
in  this  way  reciprocate. 

Soon  I  will  come  to  you  with  a  little  book  upon 
"Concentration."  I  am  so  often  asked  "How  to 
Concentrate?"  and  what  it  means,  that  in  answer  to 
these  questions,  I  write  this  as  the  next  number  in 
this  series.  I  have  also  ready  for  publication  a  work 
on  "The  Practical  Application  of  Suggestion  in 
Daily  Life/'If  you  are  seeking  unfoldment  we  shall 
long  keep  company.  We  will  be  companions  on  the 
way. 

A  most  encouraging  feature  of  modern  progress  is. 
a  realization  of  the  interest  in  things  material  giving 
way  before  interest  in  Soul.  Psychic  Research  Soci- 
eties and  investigations  in  laboratories  for  the  be- 
ginnings of  life  are  but  evidences  of  a  demand  for 
that  for  which  there  is  as  yet  no  adequate  supply. 
From  personal  experience  and  from  the  testimony 
of  thousands,  I  affirm  that  rest  is  found  only  in  the 
Principles  upon  which  all  New  Thought  cults  are 
based.  Hunger  drives  birds  to  grain  fields  and  deer 
to  the  winter  corral ;  so  soul-hunger  drives  men  and 
women  from  the  starvation  of  fashion,  social  dissi- 
pation, from  business  mart  and  sanitarium  to  the 
Mental  Scientist,  where  they  learn  that  their  only 
Power,  their  only  Possession,  is  themselves.  Where 
they  come  into  the  realization  that  happiness  does 
not  consist  in  material  things,  friends  or  conditions, 
but  does  consist  in  a  purely  mental  attitude  toward 
one's  self  and  the  universe.  Happiness,  like  all  else, 
is  a  mental  habit.  He  is  happy  who  decides  to  be 
happy.  The  Suggestion  of  happiness  creates  happi- 
ness. A  Suggestion  of  misery  will  create  it  in  a 
palace.  A  Suggestion  of  peace  will  create  peace  in 
the  midst  of  tumult.  When  one  says,  "I  am  un- 
happy," he  or  she  creates  that  condition  within  the 
mind.  When  one  says,  "I  am  happy,"  they  create 


56  How  TO  CONTROL  FATE 

happiness  within  the  mind,  its  only  habitation.  ''The 
kingdom  of  heaven"  is  the  kingdom  of  happiness. 
It  lies  only  within  the  consciousness,  and  depends 
only  upon  the  Affirmation  one  uses. 
Thus  does  one  become  the  Master  of  Fate  through 
decision  and  self-determination?  "What  shall  be 
the  Affirmation  under  which  I  live  ?"  is  the  question. 
It  is  as  easy  to  say,  "I  am  Happy/'  as  it  is  the  re- 
verse ;  as  easy  to  create  a  habit  of  using  these  words 
as  it  is  the  habit  of  using  their  opposite.  Optimism 
and  pessimism  are  mental  habits.  Which  shall  it 
be?  is  a  question  each  must  decide  for  himself. 
A  gentleman  said  to  me  last  night:  "I  cannot  tell 
you  what  I  owe  to  your  instruction.  I  was  a 
pessimist  and  unhappy  when  I  entered  your  class. 
I  now  see  everything  from  an  opposite  point  of 
view,  and  am  an  optimist."  Through  a  course  in 
Suggestion  he  had  learned  that  not  only  was  he 
that  which  he  thought,  but  that  each  thing  had  the 
effect  upon  him  that  he  thought  it  would.  Through 
expectancy  he  created  the  conditions  for  the  effect 
affirmed. 

This  change  will  come  to  every  one  of  my  readers 
when  this  Thought,  I  AM  THAT  WHICH  I 
THINK  I  AM  shall  become  to  them  the  mental  in- 
centive of  action.  As  I  think  I  am.  I  will  think 
only  that  which  I  wish  to  be.  I  will  think  ideal 
things,  and  thus  create  happiness. 
Dear  reader,  as  my  last  admonition,  I  affirm  that 
Happiness  is  the  subjective  side,  the  Cause  of  health. 
Unhappiness  is  the  subjective  side  and  the  Cause 
of  disease.  Choose!  Which  shall  it  be?  The  old 
prophet  said,  "As  for  me  and  my  house,  we  will 
serve  the  Lord."  "The  kingdom  of  God  is  within." 
Him  I  serve. 
Truly  your  friend, 

HENRY  HARRISON  BROWN. 

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